"Alexander the Great and his mule driver..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.”

“You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.”

“The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.”

“Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”

“Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.”

“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”

“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”

“Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.”

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”