Marcus Aurelius121–180The quotations of
Marcus Aurelius
16th Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 and Stoic philosopher
121–180
24 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Thinking and Virtue.
- Meditations
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man.
- Meditations
- VII, 8 (Penguin Classics edition of Meditations, translated by Maxwell Staniforth)
- III, 11
- III, 7
- IV, 20
- IV, 35
- VI, 30
- IV, 32
Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another.
Meditations, Book X, 11A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.
Meditations, Book IX, 5
