"Where life is possible at all, a..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.”

“Yes, life is a woman!”

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.”

“Time is the king of men.”

“Honor is the reward of virtue.”

“If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.”

“In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.”