Marcus Aurelius

of­fence which is com­mit­ted with pleas­ure is more blame­able than that which is com­mit­ted with pain;

He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.

Give thy­self time to learn some­thing new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

the soul does vi­ol­ence to it­self when it is over­powered by pleas­ure or by pain.

He was taught to dress plainly and to live simply, to avoid all softness and luxury.

Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was born in Cyprus at some date unknown, but his life may be said roughly to be between the years 350 and 250 B.C.

hn. was the Stoic idea of Virtue.

The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.

and in an old wo­man and an old man he will be able to see a cer­tain ma­tur­ity and come­li­ness; and the at­tract­ive love­li­ness of young per­sons he will be able to look on with chaste eyes; and many such things will present them­selves, not pleas­ing to every man, but to him only who has be­come truly fa­mil­iar with nature and her works.

of de­sire be­longs both to wild beasts and to men who have made them­selves into wo­men, and to a Phalaris and a Nero