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"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenet...

"Secluded from passion, the mind is a citadel." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a citadel is half-illuminated at dusk, and the stones crea...

"Free yourself from distraction, walk the path in front of you." - Marcus Aurelius Much of Aurelius' Meditations is dedicated to the pursuit of f...

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a runner endures hards...

"You always have the option of having no opinion." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, a haphazard collection of smart phones tally opinions a...

"Cease your imaginings. Confine yourself to the present." - Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a preeminent stoic philosopher, but still found ti...

"How quickly all things are dissolved and disappear." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, I latched on to the subject of an hourglass for the ...

"What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration I only use the shapes and colors of a stop sign. Instead of serv...

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars a...

"Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy." - Marcus Aurelius In this illustration, the interconnectedness of the physical and the conceptual...

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe Sanity and insanity reversed. The illustration depicts a man seeking ...

"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...

"There is a certain slant of light on winter afternoons" - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's famously rigid meter and rhyme scheme seemed quaint and alm...

"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass No author better captured or more fully experienced the importance of lear...

"One who has a why can bear almost any how" - Nietzsche From The Twilight of the Idols: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer First: How awesome is...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of lif...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau From his beloved book, Walden—a record of his communion with na...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for a...

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty:  "He who...