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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

Very little is needed to make a happy life.


Note 

Note



Book VII, 67


Quote source: Meditations


Very little is needed to make a happy life.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il ne faut presque rien pour être heureux.

German
Nur sehr wenig ist erforderlich zu einem glückseligen Leben.




See also 

See also...



I am rich in the goods that I can do without.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

We call 'happiness' a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.

All that is mine I carry with me.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

Happiness — how little there is that suffices for happiness !

The right-minded man is he who is not grieved by what he has not, but enjoys what he has.




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





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





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes

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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