Carry your principles like fists. You can't drop them.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.9
Carry your principles like fists. You can't drop them.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.9
The source
"Carry your principles like fists. You can't drop them." Marcus Aurelius said it in Meditations 12.9. Translated by George Long, 1862.
"the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand"George Long, 1862, Meditations 12.9.
Who said it
Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Roman emperor who wrote private notes to himself on a military campaign. We know them as the Meditations.
Questions
- Who said "Carry your principles like fists. You can't drop them."?
- Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Source: Meditations 12.9.
- What is the original wording?
- the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand (George Long, 1862). Translated by George Long, 1862.
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