Marcus Aurelius Quotes
The wrongdoer is often the person who left something undone, rather than the person who has done something
Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Translated by Gregory Hays, Modern Library, 2002, bk. 9, sec. 5.
Rush ran the hospitals for the Revolutionary Army and talked to many officers and enlisted men, and also observed much of the British military practices.
Marshall was Army Chief of Staff at the time. Actually it was the OSS—the precursor to the CIA—that accepted the job of the assassination of Werner Heisenberg, the best physicist left in Germany after so many had escaped from the dictatorship. However, the agent who was to do the assassination made the judgment from actually talking with him and reading all his scientific papers that he was not working on an atomic bomb and really didn’t know of a lot of the critical research that was ongoing. He let the scientist live, and later investigations showed that the agent, Moe Berg, was absolutely right. Neither Heisenberg nor any other German scientists were working on atomic energy. The Germans had put all their scientific eggs in the rocket and jet plane basket.
The Emperor had refused to allow trade between China and the Western “Christians” See {641621}. The English diplomats implied to the Emperor that the ships would trade with costal Chinese despite his edicts. He threatened to use force to prevent contact. His Empire, however, was not strong enough militarily to keep the English and other Christians away.
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.
