 When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the virtues of those who live with thee ; for instance, the activity of one, and the modesty of another, and the liberality of a third, and some other good quality of a fourth. For nothing delights so much...  The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus - Page 188by Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1864 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves. SIR THOMAS BROWNE. A SOURCE OF DELIGHT. When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us, and present themselves in... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...Sir Thomas Browne, MARTYRS TO VICE. Vice has more martyrs than virtue. Colton. A SOURCE OF DELIGHT. When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us, and present themselves in... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 pages
...ourselves. Sir Thomas fitvU'nr. MARTYRS TO VICE. Vice has more martyrs than virtue. A SOURCE OF DELIGHT. When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us, and present themselves in... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...not only his acts towards his fellow-men, but his thoughts also, suitable to this conviction : — 'When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...a third, and some other good quality of a fourth.' F f 2 Still, it is hard for a pure and thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1876 - 120 pages
...pass thy life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men. 16. When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us, and present themselves in... | |
 | William Wolfe Capes - Stoics - 1880 - 268 pages
...not yet as doing good to thyself."1 He speaks in a new strain of the pleasures of sympathy : — " When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us and present themselves in... | |
 | William Wolfe Capes - Stoics - 1880 - 276 pages
...new strain of the pleasures of sympathy : — " When thou wishest to delight thyself, think_ofjh.e. virtues of those who live with thee; for instance-,...For nothing delights so much as the examples of the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals of those who live with us and present themselves in... | |
 | John Hunter Smith - 1884 - 456 pages
...horse in --En., ii. 238, 239, "Pueri circum innuptseque puellse sacra canunt." Marcus Aurelius says, " When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the virtues of those who live with thee — the activity of one, the modesty of another, the liberality of a third, and some other good quality... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 184 pages
...And life be sweeter made ? Hail to the coming singers ! Hail to the brave light-briugers ! Whittier. WHEN thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...live with thee; for instance, the activity of one, the modesty of another, and the liberality of a third, and some other good quality of a fourth. Marcus... | |
 | William George Jordan, Adr Schade van Westrum - American literature - 1886 - 632 pages
...them," the injunction seems to be of doubtful value. Surely Marcus Aurelius more wisely advises that " when thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the...live with thee ; for instance, the activity of one, the modesty of another, and the liberality of a third, and some other good quality of a fourth. For... | |
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