This is from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations:
'Waste no more time thinking what a good man (person) should be. Be one.'
I first got into him about 15 years ago when he was quoted in a novel I was reading and I just had to follow it up; I hadn't thought about him for a few years until he turned up in Gladiator in a principal role as the Roman Emporer who looks on Maximus (Russel Crowe's character) as his son leading his real son (played by Joaquin Phoenix) on the path of destruction that maps the story.
I think what the quote is saying is stop thinking and talking about doing the right thing - just get on and do it, but you might have a different interpretation.
3 comments:
Sounds about right. Hard though. Much more fun to be a bad one!
Hmmm I think you're right there.
much more fun i would say...i agree
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