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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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Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing.
How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.
Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it.
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...
If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.
There is one soul, though it is distributed among several natures and individual limitations. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.
The intelligence of the universe is social.
Remember this, then, that this little compound, thyself, must either be dissolved, or thy poor breath must be extinguished, or be removed and placed elsewhere.
Reverence the gods, save men. Life is brief; there is but one harvest of earthly existence, a holy disposition and neighborly acts - Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
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