WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/77557/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Marcus Aurelius</b></a></p><blockquote>As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tackled the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.<br> <br>[ἵππος δραμών, κύων ἰχνεύσας, μέλισσα μέλι ποιήσασα, ἄνθρωπος δ̓ εὖ ποιήσας οὐκ ἐπιβοᾶται, ἀλλὰ μεταβαίνει ἐφ̓ ἕτερον, ὡς ἄμπελος ἐπὶ τὸ πάλιν ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ τὸν βότρυν ἐνεγκεῖν.]</blockquote><p><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν],</i> Book 5, ch. 6 (5.6) (AD 161-180) [tr. Long (1862)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/77557/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7755…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaurelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcusaurelius</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaureliusmeditations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcusaureliusmeditations</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=boasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boasting</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=carryon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carryon</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=character" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>character</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=gooddeed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gooddeed</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humannature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humannature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfaggrandizement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfaggrandizement</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfawareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfawareness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a></p>