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
change long soul
"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?
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Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
change decay common
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
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Everything is only for a day ... the universe loves nothing so much as to change things.
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Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
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All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.
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Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist
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The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.