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Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was a Stoic philosopher, and Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180; born Marcus Annius Catilius Severus, at marriage he took the name Marcus Annius Verus. When named Emperor, he was given the name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and afterwards became known as the last of the "Five Good Emperors".
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“Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion... I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 1
“Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 3
“From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always..that it was possible for the same man to be both vehement and remiss: a man not subject to be vexed, and offended with the incapacity of his scholars and auditors in his lectures and expositions.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 5
“Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 8
“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 9
“Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity—especially illness. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 15
“He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book I I, 16
“Ἕωθεν προλέγειν ἑαυτῷ: συντεύξομαι περιέργῳ, ἀχαρίστῳ, ὑβριστῇ, δολερῷ, βασκάνῳ, ἀκοινωνήτῳ: πάντα ταῦτα συμβέβηκεν ἐκείνοις παρὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν τῶν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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More on this quote: • Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.
• II, 1
“γεγόναμεν γὰρ πρὸς συνεργίαν ὡς πόδες, ὡς χεῖρες, ὡς βλέφαρα, ὡς οἱ στοῖχοι τῶν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὀδόντων. τὸ οὖν ἀντιπράσσειν ἀλλήλοις παρὰ φύσιν.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
• II, 3
“There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II II, 4
“Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II II, 5
“Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
• II, 5
“You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
• II, 5
“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II II, 7
“This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II Τούτων ἀεὶ μεμνῆσθαι, τίς ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις
• II, 9
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II II, 11
“Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Remember that all is opinion.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are many different translations of these, often with different nuances of interpretation and sometimes different arrangements., Book II Ὅτι πᾶν ὑπόληψις.
• II, 15
“No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour's heart.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“What means all this?”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“...undefiled by pleasures, invulnerable to any pain, untouched by arrogance, unaffected by meanness, an athlete in the greatest of all contests—the struggle not to be overwhelmed by anything that happens. (Hays translation)”
— Marcus Aurelius
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