Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

by Unknown

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Meditations. vii. 11.

Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.

Meditations. vii. 27.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Meditations. vii. 34.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.

Meditations. vii. 61.

Remember this,—that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Meditations. vii. 67.