Pointers to Wisdom

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It

Attitudes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~ Marcus Aurelius

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Alva Edison