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- It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.
- Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD), Histories
- There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- His only fault is that he has no fault.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD), Letters
- You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
- Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
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