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

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Be content to seem what you really are.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius
Soldier

We've got to be judged by how we do in times of crisis.

Johnnie Cochran
Lawyer

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet