politician
16.º emperador romano del 161 al 180 y filósofo estoico
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Join the roomMarcus Aurelius Antoninus fue emperador romano del 161 al 180 y filósofo estoico. Fue miembro de la dinastía Nerva–Antonine, el último de los gobernantes posteriormente conocidos como los Five Good Emperors y el último emperador de la Pax Romana, una era de relativa paz, calma y estabilidad para el Roman Empire que duró del 27 a. C. al 180 d. C. Sirvió como cónsul romano en 140, 145 y 161.
“Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich. (Hays translation)”
“Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.”
“Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.”
“The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.”
“To live your brief life rightly, isn't that enough? (Hays translation)”
“Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
