Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
Quotes to Explore
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
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No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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Choir of Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter. A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell: (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
