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Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) is a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher. He ruled from 161 to 180 AD and is best known for his Meditations, a collection of aphorisms and brief reflections on duty, death, and the conduct of the wise person in the face of human errors and weaknesses.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

He who loves glory thinks the activity of another to be his own good; he who loves pleasure thinks his own feeling to be his good; he who has intelligence, thinks his own action to be his good.


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French
Le vaniteux fait dépendre son propre bonheur de l'activité d'autrui; le voluptueux, de ses propres sensations et l'homme intelligent, de ses propres actions.

German
Wer den Ruhm liebt, sucht sein eigen Gut im Benehmen eines andern gegen ihn; wer die Lüste liebt, in seiner eigenen Leidenschaft, wer aber Vernunft hat, in seiner eigenen Tätigkeit




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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Demand much from yourself, little from others, and you will prevent discontent.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.




Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.











Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





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





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.











Quotes for: oneself


Quotes

Quotes about oneself:


It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.





Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.











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Marcus Aurelius also said...


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





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





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





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.





What then can be his escort through life? One thing and one thing only, Philosophy.





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.












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