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
wisdom doe
He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
destiny chiefs all-things
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
spiritual thinking opinion
Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.
spiritual whole universe
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it
mind tranquility
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.
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.
destiny may spinning
Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
warfare life-is stranger
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
land battle strange
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
should happens
Everything that happens, happens as it should.
happiness character carpe-diem
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
moving exercise arrows
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
time each-day lasts
Live each day as if it be your last.