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
happens
No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.
practice people mind
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
this-life worthless
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
together events way
Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.
pain stress feet
It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?
pain stress way
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
philosophy doctors heaven
Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.
children thinking plant
Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.
life-is-short life-is
Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.
life-is-short people important
Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.
way human-nature wrong-time
My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.
over-you tunes lasts
When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.
cooperation born
We are born for cooperation
morning defining bed
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.