Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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  • Sylashas quoted3 years ago
    To see them from above: the thousands of animal herds, the rituals, the voyages on calm or stormy seas, the different ways we come into the world, share it with one another, and leave it. Consider the lives led once by others, long ago, the lives to be led by others after you, the lives led even now, in foreign lands. How many people don’t even know your name. How many will soon have forgotten it. How many offer you praise now—and tomorrow, perhaps, contempt.

    That to be remembered is worthless. Like fame. Like everything.
  • valentinahas quoted9 months ago
    Baccheius, and then with Tandasis and Marcianus.
  • kimberly Wickhamhas quoted10 months ago
    On August 31, 161, Antoninus died, leaving Marcus as his sole successor. Marcus immediately acted to carry out what appears to have been Hadrian’s original intention (perhaps ignored by Antoninus) by pushing through the appointment of his adopted brother, Lucius Verus, as co-regent. Verus’s character has suffered by comparison with Marcus’s. Ancient sources, in particular the gossipy Historia Augusta, tend to paint him as a self-indulgent degenerate—almost another Nero. This may be unfair; it is certainly not the picture of him we get from Marcus’s own reminiscences in the Meditations. It does seem clear, however, that Marcus functioned as the senior emperor in fact if not name. It would be surprising if he had not. He was almost a decade older, and had been trained for the position by Antoninus himself.
    What kind of ruler did this philosopher-king prove to be? Not, perhaps, as different from his predecessors as one might have expected. Though an emperor was all-powerful in theory, his ability to control policy was in reality much more limited. Much of his time was spent fielding problems that had moved up the administrative ladder: receiving embassies from the large cities of the empire, trying appeals of criminal cases, answering queries from provincial governors and dealing with petitions from individuals. Even with a fu
  • Sylashas quotedlast year
    It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it.
  • Azat Sagyndykovhas quotedlast year
    Nothing is so conducive to spiritual growth
  • Azat Sagyndykovhas quotedlast year
    to trace its outline
  • Azat Sagyndykovhas quotedlast year
    The span we live is small
  • Azat Sagyndykovhas quotedlast year
    Maximus

    Self-control and resistance to distractions.

    Optimism in adversity—especially illness.
  • Azat Sagyndykovhas quotedlast year
    Not to waste time on nonsense.
  • Azat Sagyndykovhas quotedlast year
    Is what he’s doing now the right thing to be doing?
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