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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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.


Note 

Note



"The art of living resembles wrestling more than dancing, in as much as it stands prepared and unshaken to meet what comes and what it did not foresee."

BOOK VII, 61


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
L'art de vivre tient plus de la lutte que de la danse.

German
Die Kunst des Lebens besteht mehr im Ringen als im Tanzen.




See also 

See also...






Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.











Quotes for: art


Quotes

Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.





My trade and art is to live.





The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.











Quotes for: dance


Quotes

Quotes for: dance


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.





He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”





One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.





I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.











Quotes

Marcus Aurelius also said...


Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





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.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.





A property, of the rational soul is love of one's neighbour.





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












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