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
inspirational happiness happy
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
loyalty respect honesty
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
endurance substance buried
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
inspirational destiny people
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
happiness sad broken-heart
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
evil doe injustice
Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.
life happiness happy
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
long oblivion fame
How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
justice truth-and-justice values
Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.
positive-thinking men life-is
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.
life expression life-is
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
made
The main thing we were made for is to work with others.
life science power
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
love nature fate
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.