Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)

121 AD - Born on the 26th of April in Rome.

147 AD - He received the proconsular imperium outside Rome and the tribunicia potestas, the main formal powers of emperorship.

145 AD - Married Annia Galeria Faustina or Faustina the Younger, who was Antoninus' daughter and his paternal cousin.

180 AD - Died on the 17th of march in the city of Vindobona.

• "Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life."
• "The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."
• "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
• "Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
• "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall."