What did Marcus Aurelius mean by: Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised. - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy Copy
+ It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, Evil, Pain, Sin, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. Explain Feraz Zeid, February 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, Ignorant, Lazy, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ Failing to understand the workings of one’s own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 11, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, Failing, Mind, Unhappiness, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 11, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, Happy Life, Mind, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, Adversity, Endure, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. Explain Feraz Zeid, July 1, 2023December 29, 2023, Marcus Aurelius, Everlasting, Form, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
+ And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 11, 2024, Marcus Aurelius, Fame, Vanity, 0 - Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
