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
expression order different
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
dream land rivers
All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.
eternity ripple
What we do in life ripples in eternity.
love family happiness
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
destiny needs patterns
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
spring heaven earth
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
stoicism thrive feels
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
philosophical vivid-imagination understanding
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
holy pantheism
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
inspirational philosophical color
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
days-gone-by gone virtue
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
life moving-on wise
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
love family happiness
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
community mind vision
Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.