"Choose not to be harmed and you..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”

“Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.”

“But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.”

“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

“Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.”

“It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.”

“We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.”

“Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility”

“England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.”