"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."

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Source : Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

Marcus Aurelius

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“Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred?”
“Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.”
“But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:Â I am living. I remember you.”

Source : "What The Living Do". Book by Marie Howe, November 17, 1997.
“Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”
“Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.”
“Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.”
“The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.”
“Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.”

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