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
revenge enemy best-revenge
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
inspirational destiny people
Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.
hands feet cooperation
We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
adversity cucumbers path
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.
endurance substance buried
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
tolerance strict
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
loyalty respect honesty
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
men soul live-well
The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.
art atheism apes
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.
happiness sad broken-heart
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
horse tasks vines
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?
life gratitude philosophical
Each day provides its own gifts.
life real philosophical
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
life art philosophical
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.