Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence

• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Honesty, Pain, Humility

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

• It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Vanity, Principles

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

• Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Law, Simplicity

• If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Justice, Being Real

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Lulu.com

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