Daily Dose

From The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Maxwell Staniforth

#14

"Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be."

From Book Nine

Daily Dose

From The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Maxwell Staniforth

#52

"You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you."

From Book Six