To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the rage of the sea falls still around it. - Marcus Aurelius

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To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the rage of the sea falls still around it.

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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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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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[...] As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes has no value for him.

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