#her

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#aspiration #aspires #compares #estimates #higher

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#away #brought #current #events #passing

Poverty is the mother of crime. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#mother #poverty

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#atlantic #delivering #goods #here #ideology

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#cheap #china #coffin #driving #every

Men exist for the sake of one another. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#exist #men #sake

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#coming #found #genius #imagination #inherited

Where a man can live, he can also live well. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#live #man #well #where

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#commands #distinct #fact #gives #kinds

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aim #always #authenticity #bother #confuse