Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

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• It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Son
  • President

• I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Great
  • Money
  • Football

• I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Literature

• Prioritizing spending and maximizing the effectiveness of taxpayer dollars is absolutely essential. We must draw the line, realigning programs when necessary and also eliminating failed programs.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Dollars
  • Line
  • Effectiveness

• If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Times
  • Fail
  • Himself

• For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Worked

• If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Leadership
  • Daughter
  • Fathers

• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Start

• Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Enjoy
  • Show
  • Industrial

• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Art
  • Change
  • Grief

• We do know that once again innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Gun
  • Innocent

• The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.

  

  Enrico Letta
  • Guy
  • Political
  • Animal

• Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Happy
  • Respect

• Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

  

  George Koltanowski
  • Evidence
  • Goddess
  • Despite

• I love creating things. I love making things.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters

• Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

  

  Marcus Aurelius