"The man who doesn't know what the..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.”

“Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.”

“I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.”

“A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”

“Beware of a man of one book.”

“He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.”

“The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.”

“Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.”

“The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.”