"Only to the rational animal is it..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.”

“Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.”

“When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living.”

“Great minds think for themselves.”

“Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.”

“A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.”

“To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.”

“"I should hope so," Laigle replied, "for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm."”

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.”