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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

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations


Note 

Note



Book II, XVII

Other version: “Nothing that is according to nature can be evil.”


Quote source: Meditations

wikisource - Pensées de Marc-Aurèle (fr) 

Internet Archive - Selbstbetrachtungen by Marcus Aurelius (de) 



Nothing is evil which is according to nature.


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Dans ce que fait la nature, il n’y a jamais rien de mal.
Marc Aurèle - Pensées pour moi-même

German
Was mit der Natur übereinstimmt, ist kein Übel.
Mark Aurel - Selbstbetrachtungen



See also 

See also...



Nature does nothing in vain.
Aristotle

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires



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Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
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Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon / 





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
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Quotes for: evil


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Quotes for: evil


The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
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One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.
Antisthenes / 





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.
François Fénelon / 





What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil / 






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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.
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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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