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If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Let us overlook many things in those who are like antagonists in the gymnasium. For it is in our power, as I said, to get out of the way and to have no suspicion or hatred.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
It is just charming how people boast about qualities beyond their control. For instance, ‘I am better than you because I have many estates, while you are practically starving’; or, ‘I’m a consul,’ ‘I’m a governor,’ or ‘I have fine curly hair.’
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“A cucumber is bitter.” Throw it away. “There are briars in the road.” Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, “And why were such things made in the world?”
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a speck of semen tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Under no circumstances ever say ‘I have lost something,’ only ‘I returned it.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
‘But I get to wear a crown of gold.’ If you have your heart set on wearing crowns, why not make one out of roses – you will look even more elegant in that.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition, then – to win the approval of lunatics?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Consider what men are when they are eating, sleeping, coupling, evacuating, and so forth. Then what kind of men they are when they are imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding from their elevated place.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
We are going from bread and circuses to cannabis and video games to psychedelics and VR.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
If you can’t delete an email without flinching or responding, you won’t scale.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
Politics is sports writ large — pick a side, rally the tribe, exchange stories confirming bias, hurl insults and threats at the other side.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
On meditation: It’s self-therapy. Instead of paying a therapist to sit there and listen to you, you’re listening to yourself.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
We’re basically monkeys on a small rock orbiting a small backwards star in a huge galaxy, which is in an absolutely staggeringly gigantic universe, which itself may be part of a gigantic multiverse.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
Given that the main function of universities these days is filtering and signaling, the best move is to get admitted to Stanford and then drop out.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
Develop ‘strategic incompetence’ – people won’t ask you to do things you hate to do, if you’re bad at them.
Quote by -Naval Ravikant
I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
Quote by -Daniel Craig
After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.
Quote by -Hugh Grant
"I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it."
Quote by -Brigitte Bardot
"I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to."
Quote by -Dakota Fanning
"[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy."
Quote by -Dorothy Parker
"New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses."
Quote by -Duke Ellington
"One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself."
Quote by -Edgar Watson Howe
"I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say."
Quote by -James Taylor
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
Quote by -Mel Robbins
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
Quote by -Altering Kurt
I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.
Quote by -Lenny Bruce