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
wise humor deep-thought
The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.
self upset unity
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.
inspirational death suicide
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
spring heaven earth
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
mules drivers died
Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.
death philosophical secret
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
life philosophical giving
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
philosophical men sake
Men exist for the sake of one another.
philosophical persons happens
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
revenge imitation refrain
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
god thinking law
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
wise philosophical math
To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
adversity men endure
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
motivation work half
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.