“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”

— Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX, 16

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Emperor of Ancient Rome 121–180

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“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”

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