You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves. - Marcus Aurelius

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Engraved portrait of Marcus Aurelius, facing left

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.

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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.

Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011) (CC BY)

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Native Name: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Alternative Names: Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Marcus Annius Verus Marcus Catilius Severus Annius Verus Verissimus Marcus Aurelius Verus Antoninus

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