User:G J Coyne

"Say to yourself in the early morning:

I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men.

All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.

But I, because I have seen that the nature of good is right, and of ill the wrong,
and that the nature of the man himself who does wrong is akin to my own
(not of the same blood and seed, but partaking with me in mind, that is in a portion of divinity),

I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong,
nor can I be angry with my kinsmen or hate him;
for we have come into the world to work together,
like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth.

To work against one another therefore is to oppose Nature,
and to be vexed with one another or to turn away from him is to tend to antagonism."

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations as translated by A.S.L. Farquharson

"May my wrongs create no trouble, no trouble in thy breast" - from Dido's Lament

"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns" - George Santayana


"Life can little more supply, than just a few fucks,
and then we die". - John Wilkes 1754

"Life!
I always knew
it would be the death of me" - G J Coyne (talk) 17:47, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

"Keep your friends close, and friend your enemies on Facebook" - G J Coyne (talk) 06:12, 30 September 2012 (UTC)