"Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.”

“Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”

“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.”

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”

“Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”

“Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead”

“I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.”

“You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.”