Marcus Aurelius

Naissance 4/26/121 · Décès 3/17/180

Originaire de Rome, Lazio, Italy · Nationalité : Ancient Rome · Écrit des essais et documents

Marc Aurèle Antonin fut empereur romain de 161 à 180. De 161 jusqu'à la mort de Lucius Verus en 169, il gouverna aux côtés de celui-ci, son coempereur.

Citations

“People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul.”
Meditations c. AD 121–180En anglais
“All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.”
Meditations c. AD 121–180En anglais
“Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.”
Meditations c. AD 121–180En anglais
“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”
Meditations c. AD 121–180En anglais
“The span we live is small—small as the corner of the earth in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.”
Meditations c. AD 121–180En anglais