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Quote of Marcus Aurelius: Delve within; within is the fountain...


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

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


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French
Au dedans de toi est la source du bien, une source qui peut toujours jaillir, si tu creuses toujours.

German
Blicke in dein Inneres! Da ist die Quelle des Guten; sie wird immer sprudeln, wenn du nur immer nachgräbst!




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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.

Think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.




Quotes for: good


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





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





The best is the enemy of good.





To do good needs no consideration.





One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.











Quotes

Marcus Aurelius also said...


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





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.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.












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