"It is a disgrace to let ignorance..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.”

“As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.”

“Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.”

“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.”

“For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.”

“Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.”

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.”

“Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.”