Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Translated by George Long, D. Appleton and Company, 1904, p. 41.
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
See {436440} for another of his views on change.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by Niccolò Machiavelli), and the last emperor of the Pax Romana (27 BC to 180 AD), an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.