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
life thoughts universe
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
life thoughts universe
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
gratitude whole universe
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.
moved universe
The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
spiritual whole universe
The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it
change things-change universe
Everything is only for a day ... the universe loves nothing so much as to change things.
social universe
The intelligence of the universe is social.
prize universe
Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.
life opinion universe
The universe is in change, life is an opinion.
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.
astonished fraud frequently friend good learn man regard
Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud
both remembered remembers
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered
break fast rest rock sink stands waters waves
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