Ali Simmons

“As for my mind all things which are not within the verge of her own operation, are indifferent unto her, and for her own operations, those altogether depend of her.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius

“Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and properties of a good man, but really and actually be such.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius

“The nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering those things that are, and in making others like unto them. So that we may say, that whatsoever it is, is but as it were the seed of that which shall be.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius

“Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man's sake, but for thine own nature's sake; as if either gold, or the emerald, or purple, should ever be saying to themselves, Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, I must still be an emerald, and I must keep my colour.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius