Personal journal · Philosophical literatureEvery instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 7.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureBe like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly: but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sinks to rest.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 7.6
Philosophical literatureHow long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?EpictetusThe Enchiridion · 135★ 7.1
Philosophical literatureIf thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.EpictetusThe Enchiridion · 135★ 7.0
PoemThe people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things-bread and circuses!JuvenalSatires · 127★ 7.0
Scripture · Religious literatureWhoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.The Talmud200★ 7.0
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureWaste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 5.6
Biography · Historical literatureI found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.Caesar AugustusSuetonius, Lives of the Caesars · 121★ 4.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureWhat is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 4.0
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureMankind have been created for the sake of one another.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 4.0
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureLove the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 4.0
Historical literatureThose who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.Marcus Licinus CrassusPlutarch, Plutarch's Lives · 119★ 3.9
Historical literatureIt is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.PlutarchPlutarch's Lives · 119★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureHow much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literatureThe longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same things.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
Personal journal · Philosophical literature’Tis very dishonourable in life, that the soul should fail and desert its duty; while the body can hold out, and sustain its part.Marcus AureliusMeditations · 180★ 3.9
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