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
fate play fleeting
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
love fate spun
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
fate perfection each-day
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
fate men cycles
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
fate may eternity
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ...
fate law purpose
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
valentines-day fate destiny
Love the people with whom fate brings you together
fate may welcome
Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you...
work fate manifestation
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
kindness fate years
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
fate free-will submit
Submit to the fate of your own free will.
love nature fate
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
exist free robber writes
The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist
compared embrace music sexual
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.