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| Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth. |
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| 121–180, Roman emperor, named originally Marcus Annius Verus. He was a nephew of Faustina, the wife of Antoninus Pius, who adopted him. Marcus married Antoninus’ daughter, another Faustina. From youth he was a diligent student and a zealous Stoic. With his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, as colleague, Marcus succeeded Antoninus in 161. Verus allowed him to dominate, and from 169 Marcus was sole emperor. His reign was spent defending the empire against Parthians, Germans, and Britons.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  mär´k s ô-r ´l-s  n´´t-n ´ns from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
This Roman Stoic hands down the day-to-day principles on which an all-powerful Emperor ruled for the welfare of the people. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. II, Part 3.
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- Bartlett’s Marcus Aurelius Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Aurelius, Marcus, 4850 to 4854
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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