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Marcus Aurelius

Quote of Marcus Aurelius - Never let the future disturb you....


Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) Emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.


Note 

Note



Other version "Let not the future trouble you; for you will come to it, if come you must, bearing with you the same reason which you are using now to meet the present."


Quote source: Meditations

Wikisource - Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus (en) 

Internet Archive - Les pensées de Marc-Auréle (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Que l’avenir ne te trouble pas; tu l’aborderas, s’il le faut, en portant dans tout ce qu’il te réserve cette même raison qui t’éclaire sur les choses du moment.

German
Sorge nicht für die Zukunft! Wirst du sie ja doch, wenn es sein soll, einmal erreichen, mit derselben Vernunft ausgerüstet, die dir jetzt in der Gegenwart Dienste leistet.




See also 

See also...



Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

There are hurricanes in human affairs, tempests of passion, when it is wise to retire to a harbor and ride it out at anchor. Remedies often make diseases worse.




Quotes for: present


Quotes

Quotes about the present:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.





Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.











Quotes for: future


Quotes

Quotes about the future:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





Man is the future of man.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.











Quotes

Marcus Aurelius also said...


Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.





A property, of the rational soul is love of one's neighbour.





Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.





Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.












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