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
astonished fraud frequently friend good learn man regard
Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud
doer evil left man wrong
A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something
enjoy life man quick
No man is quick enough to enjoy life
however man
However much a man gives, there is more that he withholds
formed happens man nature
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.
life lives loses man nor remember
Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses
astonished happens man ridiculous
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
great man small wish
You wish to appear, Cotta, a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time: but he who is a pretty man, Cotta, is a very small man
hair legs manliness mind shows signs
Your legs and breast bristle with shaggy hair but your mind, Pannicus, shows no signs of manliness
false itself man vice vicious
It is false to say that you are a vicious man, Zoilus; you are not a vicious man, you are vice itself
certain consider correct deal dost enable great judgment learn man men pass reference thou understand whether wrong
Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.
refuses soon
He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse
challenged magnitude
I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged as well,
earth lightly rest thee
Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee