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 echoes
What we do now echoes in eternity.
inspirational running horse
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
inspirational life positive
Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
lying inspiration mean
The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.
inspirational goes-on good-person
Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
inspirational character soul
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
inspirational philosophical color
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
inspirational philosophical self-confidence
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
inspirational ambition mean
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
inspirational life work
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
inspirational philosophical thinking
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.
love inspirational change
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.
inspirational death suicide
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
philosophical inspiration being-alone
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.