Mark Aurel Berühmte Zitate
Zitate über Leben von Mark Aurel
„Nicht den Tod sollte man fürchten, sondern daß man nie beginnen wird, zu leben.“
WISDOM OF MARCUS AURELIUS & SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS
Selbstbetrachtungen IV, 17
Original altgriech.: "Μὴ ὡς μύρια μέλλων ἔτη ζῆν. τὸ χρεὼν ἐπήρτηται' ἕως ζῇς, ἕως ἔξεστιν, ἀγαθὸς γενοῦ."
Lat.: "Ne ut qui millia annorum victurus sit; fatum impendet; dum vivis, dum licet, fac bonus fias."
Selbstbetrachtungen
Selbstbetrachtungen XII, 13
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Selbstbetrachtungen II, 4. Übersetzung durch Arno Mauersberger in: Der Weg zu sich selbst, Anaconda Verlag, Köln, 2008, ISBN 3866473109, S. 14.
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Zitate über Tod von Mark Aurel
Selbstbetrachtungen IV, 5
Original altgriech.: "Ὁ θάνατος τοιοῦτον, οἷον γένεσις, φύσεως μυστήριον' σύγκρισις ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν στοιχείων, εἰς ταὐτὰ ‹λύσις›."
Lat.: "Mors tale quid est, quale ortus, naturae actio occulta, concretio ex elementis et dissolutio in eadem."
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Meditations
Mark Aurel Zitate und Sprüche
„Übe dich auch in den Dingen, an denen du verzweifelst.“
Selbstbetrachtungen XII, 6
Original altgriech.: "Ἔθιζε καὶ ὅσα ἀπογινώσκεις."
Lat.: "Adsuesce etiam iis, quae fieri posse desperas."
Selbstbetrachtungen
Selbstbetrachtungen VI, 13
Original altgriech.: "Οἷον δὴ τὸ φαντασίαν λαμβάνειν ἐπὶ τῶν ὄψων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἐδωδίμων, ὅτι νεκρὸς οὗτος ἰχθύος, οὗτος δὲ νεκρὸς ὄρνιθος ἢ χοίρου' καὶ πάλιν, ὅτι ὁ Φάλερνος χυλάριόν ἐστι σταφυλίου καὶ ἡ περιπόρφυρος τριχία προβατίου αἱματίῳ κόγχης δεδευμένα."
Lat.: "Quemadmodum iam de obsoniis atque eiusmodi eduliis imaginem animo concipimus, ut, hoc piscis cadaver esse, illud cadaver avis aut porci, item, Falernum esse succulum uvulae, praetextam oviculae pilos, conchae cruore infectos."
Selbstbetrachtungen
„Bald - und du hast alles vergessen. Bald - und alles hat dich vergessen.“
Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 21
Original altgriech.: "Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη."
Lat.: "Instat tempus, quo tu omnium oblitus eris: instat, quo omnes tui obliti erunt."
Selbstbetrachtungen
„Glücklich sein heißt einen guten Charakter haben.“
Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 17 (nach Übersetzung von F. C. Schneider)
Selbstbetrachtungen
„Die beste Art, sich zu rächen, ist, nicht Gleiches mit Gleichem zu vergelten.“
Selbstbetrachtungen VI, 6
Original altgriech.: "Ἄριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι."
Lat.: "Optima ratio ulciscendi, non similem malis fieri."
Selbstbetrachtungen
Selbstbetrachtungen V, 24
Selbstbetrachtungen V, 16 (nach Übersetzung von Albert Wittstock)
Selbstbetrachtungen
"Aufzeichnungen über mich selbst", V,1, www.uni rostock.de http://www.uni-rostock.de/fakult/philfak/fkw/iph/strobach/veranst/therapy/marcaur.html
Selbstbetrachtungen
„Nichts begegnet einem, was er von Natur nicht zu ertragen vermag.“
Selbstbetrachtungen V, 18
Original altgriech.: "Οὐδὲν οὐδενὶ συμβαίνει ὃ οὐχὶ ἐκεῖνο πέφυκε φέρειν."
Lat.: "Nihil cuiquam accidit, ad quod ferendum natura non sit comparatus."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VIII, 50
Original altgriech.: "Σίκυος πικρός; ἄφες. βάτοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ; ἔκκλινον. ἀρκεῖ, μὴ προσεπείπῃς' τί δὲ καὶ ἐγένετο ταῦτα ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ."
Lat.: "Cucumis amarus: mitte! Vepres in via: declina! sufficit. Noli haec verba addere: »Quare quaeso haec quoque in mundo sunt?«."
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Selbstbetrachtungen, IV, 49.
Original altgriech.: "Ὅμοιον εἶναι τῇ ἄκρᾳ, ᾗ διηνεκῶς τὰ κύματα προσρήσσεται' ἡ δὲ ἕστηκε καὶ περὶ αὐτὴν κοιμίζεται τὰ φλεγμήναντα τοῦ ὕδατος."
Lat.: "Promontorii instar esse, ad quod fluctus perpetuo alliduntur: illud autem consistit et circa se maris aestum compescit."
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Selbstbetrachtungen V, 16 (nach Übersetzung von C. F. Schneider)
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„Lass die Einbildung schwinden, und es schwindet die Klage, dass man dir Böses getan.“
Selbstbetrachtungen IV, 7
Essen : Phaidon, [1996]. (Bibliothek der Philosophie ; Band 2), - ISBN 3-88851-105-4 - Kapitel IV, Abschnitt 40
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Original: (el) Πάντα ἀλλήλοις ἐπιπέπλεκται καὶ ἡ σύνδεσις ἱερά, καὶ σχεδόντι οὐδὲν ἀλλότριον ἄλλο ἄλλῳ˙ συγκατατέτακται γὰρ καὶ συγκοσμεῖ τὸν αὐτὸν κόσμον. κόσμος τε γὰρ εἷς ἐξ ἁπάντων καὶθεὸς εἷς δἰ ἁπάντων καὶ οὐσία μία καὶ νόμος εἷς, λόγος κοινὸςπάντων τῶν νοερῶν ζῴων, καὶ ἀλήθεια μία, εἴγε καὶ τελειότηςμία τῶν ὁμογενῶν καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου μετεχόντων ζῴων.
„Glücklich sein heißt einen guten Genius haben oder gut sein.“
Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 17 (nach Übersetzung von Albert Wittstock)
Selbstbetrachtungen
„Alles, was etwas Gemeinsames hat, strebt zum Verwandten.“
Selbstbetrachtungen IX, 9
Original altgriech.: "‹Πάντα› ὅσα κοινοῦ τινος μετέχει πρὸς τὸ ὁμογενὲς σπεύδει."
Lat.: "Quaecunque aliquid commune habent, ad id, quod eiusdem generis est, tendunt."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VIII, 20
Original altgriech.: "Ἡ φύσις ἐστόχασται ἑκάστου οὐδέν τι ἔλασσον τῆς ἀπολήξεως ἢ τῆς ἀρχῆς τε καὶ διεξαγωγῆς, ὡς ὁ ἀναβάλλων τὴν σφαῖραν."
Lat.: "Natura cuiusque rei rationem habet, non minus, quod ad ejus finem attinet, quam ad ortum eius et transitum, ad instar eius, qui pilam emittit."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 25
Original altgriech.: "Πάντα ὅσα ὁρᾷς ὅσον οὔπω μεταβαλεῖ ἡ τὰ ὅλα διοικοῦσα φύσις καὶ ἄλλα ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας αὐτῶν ποιήσει καὶ πάλιν ἄλλα ἐκ τῆς ἐκείνων οὐσίας, ἵνα ἀεὶ νεαρὸς ᾖ ὁ κόσμο."
Lat.: "Quaecunque vides, haec omnia iamiam natura, quae res omnes administrat, mutabit, aliaque ex eorum materia faciet, et ex horum rursus alia, ut mundus semper sit novus."
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Mark Aurel: Zitate auf Englisch
“The universal nature has no external space”
VIII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Kontext: The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.
“The things… which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede”
VIII, 41
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Kontext: The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
“He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master”
X, 25
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he also who is grieved or angry or afraid, is dissatisfied because something has been or is or shall be of the things which are appointed by Him who rules all things, and He is Law, and assigns to every man what is fit. He then who fears or is grieved or is angry is a runaway.
X, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen. Suppose that he was a good and a wise man, will there not be at least some one to say to himself, Let us at last breathe freely, being relieved from this schoolmaster? It is true that he was harsh to none of us, but I perceive that he tacitly condemns us.—This is what is said of a good man. But in our own case how many other things are there for which there are many who wish to get rid of us.
X, 6
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: By remembering then that I am a part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens. And inasmuch as I am in a manner intimately related to the parts which are of the same kind with myself, I shall do nothing unsocial, but I shall rather direct myself to the things which are of the same kind with myself, and I shall turn all my efforts to the common interest, and divert them from the contrary.
“In contemplating thyself never include the vessel”
X, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: In contemplating thyself never include the vessel which surrounds thee, and these instruments which are attached about it. For they are like an ax, differing only in this, that they grow to the body. For indeed there is no more use in these parts without the cause which moves and checks them than in the weaver's shuttle, and the writer's pen, and the driver's whip.
And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.
X, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
XII, 30
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
Kontext: Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains and infinite other things. There is one common substance, though it is distributed among countless bodies which have their several qualities. There is one soul, though it is distributed among several natures and individual limitations. There is one intelligent soul, though it seems to be divided.
“Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.”
VII, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Kontext: Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present.... Divide and distribute every object into the causal [formal] and the material.... Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
“Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all”
X, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?
IX, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
Kontext: Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.
VII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Kontext: That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.
“Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.”
VII, 30
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Kontext: Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Quelle: Meditations
“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
IV, 41
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.”
Quelle: Meditations
“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
Quelle: Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται τὸ εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι
VII, 67
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
Quelle: Meditations
“Receive without conceit, release without struggle.”
Quelle: Meditations
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
Quelle: Meditations
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Quelle: Meditations
