Quotes about Reflection
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
- Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
- Marcus Aurelius
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
- Marcus Aurelius
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
- Cicero
Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.
- Cicero
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
- Cicero
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
- Cicero
No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
- Cicero
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
- Cicero
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
- Margaret Atwood