If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which… - Marcus Aurelius
" "If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.
About Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolò Machiavelli), and the last emperor of the Pax Romana (27 BC to 180), an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.
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