IX, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
Kontext: Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.
Marcus Aurelius: Citáty v angličtine (page 6)
Marcus Aurelius bol vládca starovekého Ríma. Citáty v angličtine.
VII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Kontext: That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.
“Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.”
VII, 30
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Kontext: Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
IV, 41
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται τὸ εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι
VII, 67
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Zdroj: Meditations