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
character soul mind
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
military war men
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
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?
choices world add
This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
science men he-man
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
fire lamps use
The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level.
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.
giving moments present-moment
Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
evil way found
...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.
boys principles atoms
In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.
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.
bears fortune misfortunes
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
money men dresses
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
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.