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View all quotes →- Marcus Aurelius“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
- Seneca“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing i…”
- Seneca“Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in…”
- Marcus Aurelius“[It is] like seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realizing: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig. Or t…”