"Socrates used to call the opinions of..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.”

“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.”

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

“To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.”

“America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.”

“The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.”

“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”

“Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.”

“At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.”