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
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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
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Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
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A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
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I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
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Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.