Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

Marcus Aurelius

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• I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

  

  Zendaya
  • Language
  • Weird
  • Appreciated

• I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.

  

  Halsey
  • Existence

• When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Energy
  • Change

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Doing
  • Easy
  • Start

• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Work
  • Canvas
  • Add

• I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Think
  • Me
  • Back

• My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writer
  • Favorite
  • John

• I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Walk

• You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Money
  • Control
  • Communication

• Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart’s content, the fog won’t lift.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Heart
  • May

• I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Help

• Basil Cardinal Hume in: Guidelines for Opus Dei within the Diocese of Westminster, 2 December 1981 : Initiative and activities of Opus Dei, within the diocese of Westminster, should carry a clear indication of their sponsorship and management.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Management
  • December

• What a lovely voice, but who cares?

  

  Maria Callas

• I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them - the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and stalls. They all seem weird and strange to me. Things have always impressed me in this way.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Weird

• The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

  

  Keith Henson
  • Learning

• To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • In oder

• We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

  

  Charles Clarke
  • Responsibility
  • Violence
  • Helping

• I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that something remains that will not seem old-fashioned, that will still have a ­vibrancy to it 50 years from now.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stills

• Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.

  

  Marcus Aurelius