Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aureliuswas Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. He was a practitioner of Stoicism, and his untitled writing, commonly known as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, is the most significant source of our modern understanding of ancient Stoic philosophy...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 April 121
CityRome, Italy
Marcus Aurelius quotes about
mistake ignorance self
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.
perfect mind desire
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
inspirational revenge hatred
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
climbing mountain littles
Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
time philosophical men
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
good-life men fearless
If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and keeping the divinity within you pure and upright, as though you were even now faced with its recall - if you hold steadily to this, staying for nothing and shrinking from nothing, only seeking in each passing action a conformity with nature and in each word and utterance a fearless truthfulness, then the good life shall be yours. And from this course no man has the power to hold you back.
time giving something-new
Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.
love valentines-day heartbreak
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
soul sun use
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
views bonus rest-of-your-life
Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus....
attitude color train-of-thought
Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
wise men should
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
life color imagination
A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
connections citizens morality
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.