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Roman emperor and Stoic · 121–180 AD · Philosophy
Ruled Rome through plague and war on the Danube while writing a private notebook of Stoic self-correction he never meant anyone to read.
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“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Marcus was adopted into the imperial succession by Antoninus Pius and took power in 161, sharing it at first with Lucius Verus. His reign was mostly emergency: the Antonine Plague swept the empire, the Parthians attacked in the east, and Germanic tribes crossed the Danube, keeping him in camp for years. He wrote the Meditations in Greek during those campaigns, addressing himself — reminders to be patient with fools, to accept what he could not change, to remember that fame is short. He died at sixty-eight, probably at Vindobona. His son Commodus succeeded him and undid much of it.
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You can put that to the Marcus Aurelius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marcus Aurelius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 121–180 AD, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marcus Aurelius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marcus Aurelius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 121–180 AD, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marcus Aurelius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marcus Aurelius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 121–180 AD, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Marcus Aurelius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Marcus Aurelius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 121–180 AD, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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