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
advice done
Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.
benefits
No one wearies of benefits received.
names blame forget
Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.
money men dresses
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
bears fortune misfortunes
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
military war men
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
revenge injury revenue
The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.
providence
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
evil way found
...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.
ambition mean self
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
science men he-man
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
choices world add
This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
children age youth
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?
soul littles body
I consist of a little body and a soul.