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Biography - Marcus Aurelius:

(Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) Emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher.
Born: 121 - Died: 180
Period:
2nd century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Your life is short. You must turn to profit the present by the aid of reason and justice.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations


Note 

Note



"The sum of the matter is this: life is short; the present must be turned to profit with reasonableness and right. Be sober without effort."

BOOK IV, 26


Quote source: Meditations

Wikisource - Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus (en) 

Wikisource - Pensées de Marc-Aurèle (fr) 

Internet Archive - Selbstbetrachtungen by Marcus Aurelius (de) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La vie est courte : tire profit du moment présent par la réflexion et la justice.
Marc Aurèle - Pensées pour moi-même

German
Kurz ist das Leben; den Augenblick muss man nützen mit feinem Sinn und rechter Tat.
Mark Aurel - Selbstbetrachtungen



See also 

See also...





Quotes for: reason


Quotes

Quotes about reason:


Have courage to use your own reason!
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? / 





Truth prevails only to the extent that we successfully assert it. The victory of reason can only be the victory of rational people.
Bertolt Brecht / 





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
René Descartes - Discourse on the Method / 





The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 






All about reason...




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 






All about life...




Quotes for: present


Quotes

Quotes about the present:


Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci / 





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein / 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Gautama Buddha / 






All about the present...




Quotes for: Justice


Quotes

Quotes about Justice:


Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
Nelson Mandela / 





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.
Xenophanes / 





Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Justice seeks no reward.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - De legibus / 






All about Justice...




Quotes

Marcus Aurelius also said...


Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 







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