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
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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
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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
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Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.
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It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It's somewhat of an anomaly. We're still in August but temperatures like this are uncommon.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely but to write a book is hard
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To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
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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.
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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
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions
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All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike
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A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something