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Marcus Aurelius

Quote of Marcus Aurelius - Observe what your nature requires of...


Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

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

Observe what your nature requires of you.


Note 

Note



Book X, II

Other version:
“Observe what thy nature asks of thee.”


Source: Meditations



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Observe ce que réclame de toi la nature.

German
Beachte genau, was deiner Natur gemäß ist.




See also 

See also...



Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.

Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.

'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.

I went in search of myself.

Keep looking straight forward to the goal to which Nature is leading you, Universal Nature through what befalls you, and your own nature by what has to be done by yourself.




Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





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





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.





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











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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