Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Horse, Tasks, Vines

• The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extravagant attire, chandeliers, statues, and other luxuries. He taught me that it is possible to live instead pretty much in the manner of a private citizen without losing any of the dignity and authority a ruler must possess to discharge his imperial duties effectively.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Father, Luxury, Arrogance

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Peculiar, Duty

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (22), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

• From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Writing, Science, Occupation

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.18, Enhanced Media Publishing

• Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Justice, Serious

• It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Duty

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