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Marcus Aurelius Quotes about Understanding

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), AndrĂ© Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1708). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus His Conversation with Himself: Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker ; as Also the Emperor's Life”, p.214

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

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.76, Enhanced Media Publishing