Marc Aurèle citations célèbres
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Marc Aurèle Citations
Marc Aurèle: Citations en anglais
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
Variante: How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Source: Meditations
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Variant translation: If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
VI, 21
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
V.20
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
Contexte: In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us--like sun, wind, and animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. (Hays translation)
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
Source: Meditations
“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
Source: Meditations
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
Source: Meditations
“What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”
Source: Meditations
“A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”
Source: Meditations
“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”
Source: Meditations
“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”
Source: Meditations
“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Meditations
