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
together world holy
Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.
perception world life-is
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
world earth agree
Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.
world opinion this-life
The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
men going-out world
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
together world gone
How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
lying gentleman world
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
choices world add
This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?
world forgotten
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
goes-on world cucumbers
Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'
morning rising world
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?
world should feels
Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?
soul mind world
The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.
exist free robber writes
The robber of your free will," writes Epictetus, "does not exist