Quotes about Reflection

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered

Think not so much of what you lack as of what you have: but of the things that you have, select the best, and then reflect on how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Observe, in short, how transient and trivial is all mortal life; yesterday a drop of semen, tomorrow a handful of spice or ashes. Spend, therefore, these fleeting moments of earth as Nature would have you spend them, and then go to your rest with a good grace, as an olive falls in its season, with a blessing for the earth.

Don't be overheard complaining ... not even to yourself.

Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods, and yet do not use it.

Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how

The end and object of a rational constitution is, to do nothing rashly, to be kindly affected towards men, and in all things willingly to submit unto the gods. Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time.

It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.