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
clue hesitate knowledge life
Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live
refuses soon
He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse
half lend lose rather wishes
He who prefers to give to Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half
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The perfumes at our board last night - Were exquisite, I won't deny it, But we were starved, we were outright, For meat, could no how come by it
life lying men
Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
life expression life-is
Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
doubly joys life looking past pleasure present taste
The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past
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Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation
admirers crowd dinner eloquent
When the crowd of your admirers is shouting, "Bravo! Hear, hear!" it is not you, Pomponius, but your dinner that is eloquent
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Philo declares he never dines at home, and that is no exaggeration: He has no place whereat to dine in Rome, Unless he hooks an invitation
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
execute life though thy
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
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When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present