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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.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations


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.
Marc Aurèle - Pensées pour moi-même

German
Die Kunst des Lebens besteht mehr im Ringen als im Tanzen.
Mark Aurel - Selbstbetrachtungen



See also 

See also...





Quotes for: to live


Quotes

Quotes for: to live


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 





To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.
René Descartes - Principles of Philosophy / 





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





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.
Alan Watts / 





My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





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






All to live quotes...




Quotes for: art


Quotes

Quotes about art:


Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 





My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 





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





Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso / 





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.'
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science / 





A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde / 






All about art...




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.
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety / 





Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary / 





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.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





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.'
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science / 





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






All dance quotes...




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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