Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
Quotes to Explore
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.
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I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.
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I'm usually in jammies and slippers by 8 P.M.
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Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.
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What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
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I was a handful growing up.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.
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I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.
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I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.
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I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.
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Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. (Hays translation)
