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
account full gratitude remember
Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
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The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.
gratitude sadness expression
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
gratitude quality looks
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
gratitude cheer men
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
running gratitude philosophical
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
life gratitude philosophical
Each day provides its own gifts.
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Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
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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.
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Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud
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Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered
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Be like a headland of rock on which the waves break incessantly; but it stands fast and around it the seething of the waters sink to rest