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Quote of Marcus Aurelius - To forbear, not only to do...


Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

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

To forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil.


Note 

Note



Book I, 3


Source: Meditations



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
S'abstenir non pas seulement de faire le mal, mais même d'en concevoir jamais la pensée.

German
Das Böse weder zu tun noch auch nur zu denken.




See also 

See also...



The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.




Quotes for: to think


Quotes

Quotes for: to think


A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.





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





I think, therefore I am.





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











Quotes for: evil


Quotes

Quotes for: evil


The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





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





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.











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.





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












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