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Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature
  • Our life is what our thoughts make it.

    "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).
  • A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

    Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”, p.180
  • My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

    Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.195, Modern Library

Marcus Aurelius

  • Born: April 26, 121
  • Died: March 17, 180
  • Occupation: Roman emperor
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