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MARCUS AURELIUS (MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS)
Roman emperor, philosopher and author
(121 - 180)
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Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.
      - [Character]

And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.
      - Med (4, 33) [Fame]

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
      - Meditations (ch. II) [Investigation]

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
      - Meditations (ch. IV, 36) [Evolution]

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
      - Meditations (ch. IX, 9) [Quality]

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color."
      - Meditations (ch. VII) [Goodness]

Remember this,--that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
      - Meditations (IV, 32) [Dignity]

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
      - Meditations (IV, 4) [Nothingness]


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