Born 27 July 1870
La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France
Died 16 July 1953 (aged 82)
Guildford, England
Occupation Writer, Member of Parliament (1906-1910)
Nationality French-British
Period 1896-1953
Genres Poetry, History, Essays, Politics, Economics, Travel literatures
Spouse(s) Elodie Hogan, 1896-1914
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Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
– Hillaire Belloc
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Money gives me pleasure all the time.
– Hillaire Belloc
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I’m tired of Love; I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.
– Hillaire Belloc
Civil Status: Ellen Louisa Tucker (m. 1829; d. 1831); Lydian Jackson (m. 1835)
Career: Essayist, Poet, Lecturer, Philosopher
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘ All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.’’
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind love a lover.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person’s point of view.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
– RW Emerson
A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty without expression is boring.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy is ignorance.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Frankness invites frankness.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please – you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson< …
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the antidote to fear- knowledge, use and reason. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.
— Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
– RW Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
To different minds, the same world is hell, and a heaven.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The bitterest tragic element in life is the belief in a brute fate or destiny.
– Emerson
The civilised man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. – Ralph Waldo Emerson …The affirmative of affirmative is love.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – “Let there be truth between us two forevermore.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man … place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is this to be said in favour of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
– Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
– Emerson
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do, is all that concerns me, and not what people think.
– Emerson.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marcus Aurelius, as a philosopher is one of the best.
Even during his lifetime, he became known as the Philosopher King.
He is the most important stoicphilosopher.
Stoicism is about being temperate, having self-restraint, being mindful of one’s duty, and respect for others
He did exercise his philosophy that is why he became known as the last of the Five Good Emperors.
Here are some of his quotable quotes to live by:
Marcus Aurelius – Philosopher King
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.
– Marcus Aurelius
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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
– Marcus Aurelius
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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
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He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe.
-Marcus Aurelius
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
~Marcus Aurelius
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Life is but a campaign or course of travels, and after-fame is oblivion.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
~Marcus Aurelius
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
– Marcus Aurelius
Never throw away your legs, to stand upon crutches.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
– Marcus Aurelius
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius
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People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills… There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind… So constantly give yourself this retreat and renew yourself.
– M Aurelius
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Perform every action as though it were your last.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Time is like a rapid river, and a rushing torrent of all that comes and passes. A thing is no sooner well come, but it is past.
– Marcus Aurelius
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
– Marcus Aurelius
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“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
―Marcus Aurelius
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius
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The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have give away.
– Marcus Aurelius
The world is all transformation, and life is opinion.
– Marcus Aurelius
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There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won’t hail the occasion with delight.
– Marcus Aurelius
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than dancing. the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
– Marcus Aurelius
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
– Marcus Aurelius
The secret of all victory lies in the organisation of the non-obvious.
– Marcus Aurelius
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
-Karl Marx
Capital is money, capital is commodities… By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
– Karl Marx
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.
—Karl Marx
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
– Karl Marx
Benjamin Franklin was one of the 56 men who signed America’s Declaration of Independence.
Benjamin Franklin is widely known to be the only President of the United States who was never a President of United States. Meaning his reputation as a statesman is such that everyone thought he was once a president but sadly he was not.
Benjamin Franklin was the 15th amongst the 17th children his parents begot – big family.
Benjamin Franklin apparently brought to the USA the first bathtub in 1790. It was from France and made of copper. The tub was in a shape of a shoe and still very rudimentary. It doesn’t have the taps for ready hot and cold water. Everything was brought from another source manually. Be that as it may, Benjamin Franklin loved his bathtub so much that he spent a great deal of time on it whilst reading and writing. 😉
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A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
– Benjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
—Franklin
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Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
– Benjamin Franklin
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
– Benjamin Franklin
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Creditors have better memories than debtors
-Benjamin Franklin
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing”
Benjamin Franklin
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“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
– Franklin
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Fish and visitors stink after three days.
– Benjamin Franklin
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He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
– Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
– Benjamin Franklin
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He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.
~Benjamin Franklin
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
– Benjamin Franklin
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
– Benjamin Franklin
If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman’s house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
—Franklin.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.
—Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half-shut afterwards.
– Benjamin Franklin
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
~Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
– Benjamin Franklin
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
– Benjamin Franklin
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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
—Franklin.
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The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes , and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
~Benjamin Franklin
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There was never a good war or a bad war.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
– Benjamin Franklin
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There are three faithful friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
– Franklin
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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Benjamin Franklin
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Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.
– Benjamin Franklin
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Well done is better than well said.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Marcus Aurelius, as a philosopher is one of the best.
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