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
benefits
No one wearies of benefits received.
giving advice attention
Give full attention and devotion to each act.
advice done
Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.
life solitude mind
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.
life palaces life-is
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
providence
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
soul littles body
I consist of a little body and a soul.
life taken past
Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?
life life-changing accomplished
Can anything that is useful be accomplished without change?
order together medley
Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.
mind tranquility
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
spiritual whole universe
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it
spiritual thinking opinion
Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.