#v

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#assigns #good #man #nature #time

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#education #glory #man #more #natural

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #give #last #life #relief

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#good #good and evil #life #neither #only

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#attribute #cause #come #controversies #majority

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#every #execute #last #life #though

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#ages #beginning #cannot #even #her

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#allowed #always #approach #felt #his

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#different #different things #may #more #often

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ↗

— Jane Austen

#good #lady #must #novel #person