"He who has seen present things has..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”

“Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.”

“I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.”

“I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.”

“Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.”

“The stars are the apexes of what triangles!”

“Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.”

“If you put your heart against the earth with meIn serving every creature, our Beloved will enter youFrom our sacred realm, and we will be, we will beSo happy.”

“Through it all nobody gets me like you do.”