To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. – Marcus Aurelius
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. – Marcus Aurelius
Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. – Marcus Aurelius
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. – Marcus Aurelius
These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons… they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven. – Christopher Columbus