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
inspirational life motivational
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
philosophy philosophical reality
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
war men opinion
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
war philosophical future
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
love life good-morning
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
morning hate real
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together...
soul asking needs
You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.
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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
change life-changing understanding
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
fire needs inward
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.
evil
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.