“Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future. All”
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. Every”
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state; for either they were received among the same seminal principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among the atoms. Consider”
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
― The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
“They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear. We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god they have been taught to worship but know not; and, standing where the echoing dome spans the long vista of the shadowy light, glance up, half hoping, half afraid to see some awful vision hovering there. And”
― Three Men in a Boat
― Three Men in a Boat
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