Luis Maldonado

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The elemental prerequisite for GOP lawmakers attempting to keep their job is to stay out of the president’s crosshairs, to avoid antagonizing his supporters back in their states and districts. This requires considerable sacrifices, chief among them ideological consistency. But it’s a small price to pay for another term with a salary of $174,000; fully funded trips around the world; sprawling staffs catering to their every whim; power-flexing appearances on cable television; black-tie dinners and top-dollar fund-raisers and seats at the table with some of the world’s most powerful and well-connected people.”
― Tim Alberta, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

“Everything which is in any way beautiful is beautiful in itself, and terminates in itself, not having praise as part of itself.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Complete and Unabridged: Illustrated with Audiobook Link

“From Alexander[B] the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used, and in the way of answer or giving confirmation,”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Complete and Unabridged: Illustrated with Audiobook Link