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Marcus Aurelius

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


Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) Emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher.
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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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



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!




See also 

See also...



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.

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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Quotes for: good


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





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





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





To do good needs no consideration.





The best is the enemy of good.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.











Quotes

Marcus Aurelius also said...


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.





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.





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












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