Ali Simmons

“Both he that praiseth, and he that is praised; he that remembers, and he that is remembered, will soon be dust and ashes.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius

“Doth then any of them forsake their former false opinions that I should think they profit? For without a change of opinions, alas! what is all that ostentation, but mere wretchedness of slavish minds, that groan privately, and yet would make a show of obedience to reason, and truth?”
― 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

“Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such will thy mind be in time. For the soul doth as it were receive its tincture from the fancies, and imaginations.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations in Verse: The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius