Quote of Marcus Aurelius - At any moment you choose you...

Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

Emperor of Rome.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Quote

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.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Translation

(French, German)

Tu peux, à l'heure que tu veux, te retirer en toi-même. Nulle retraite n'est plus tranquille ni moins troublée pour l'homme que celle qu'il trouve en son âme.”
Marcus Aurelius - Pensées pour moi-même

Ziehe dich in dich selbst zurück: dem vernünftigen herrschenden Seelenteil ist ja die Fähigkeit angeboren, sein Genügen in sich selber zu finden, wenn er gerecht handelt und ebendaher vollendete Ruhe hat.”
Marcus Aurelius - Selbstbetrachtungen

Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.”
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid

Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

soul

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

All about soul...

Quotes about oneself:

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca - De Vita Beata

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All about oneself...

Marcus Aurelius also said...

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.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

sage

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

happiness

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

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