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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

Observe what your nature requires of you.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations


Note 

Note



Book X, II

Other version:
“Observe what thy nature asks of thee.”


Quote source: Meditations


Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Observe ce que réclame de toi la nature.
Marc Aurèle - Pensées pour moi-même

German
Beachte genau, was deiner Natur gemäß ist.
Mark Aurel - Selbstbetrachtungen



See also 

See also...



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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde ? - Quotation of uncertain origin

This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Tell yourself, first of all, what kind of man you want to be; and then go ahead with what you are doing.
Epictetus

Learn to know yourself, and descend into yourself.
Pierre Corneille - Cinna

'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn

I went in search of myself.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Keep looking straight forward to the goal to which Nature is leading you, Universal Nature through what befalls you, and your own nature by what has to be done by yourself.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations



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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 / 





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





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation / 






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Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.
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