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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolò Machiavelli), and the last emperor of the Pax Romana (27 BC to 180), an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire.
Military leaders Philosophers Also known as: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.
The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good.
In matter of writing or reading thou must needs be taught before thou can do either: much more in matter of life.
He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
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