"Let men see, let them know, a..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.”

“It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.”

“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”

“With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.”

“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”

“Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating ecstasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is — nor what faith or art or health really is.”

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”

“Don't do anything that isn't play”

“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.”