Post profound comments by historical people, /his/

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"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind. Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."

>>971151

What.

>>971136
OP image looks like Caracalla rather than Aurelius.

>>971136
that's not marcus aurelius

>>971175

OP here.

That's why you can never trust the Internet.

>>971188

OP here.

Yes we already distinguished that. But the quote is from Marcus Aurelius, therefore it's still legit, no matter if Caracalla's bust is there.

>>971201
Except Marcus Aurelius never fucking said that.

http://threeshoutsonahilltop.blogspot.com/2011/06/marcus-aurelius-and-source-checking.html

>>971159
Is this a fart joke or is he just telling people to not let others speak about them behind their backs?

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>No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.

Anything Sulla said, basically. The number 1 Alpha Male the Roman Empire ever produced.

>>971201
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PRAGMATICS

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>I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

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>>971136
"He shares half a haplotype with us."
- Pure blooded German king

>>971417
Will that video, or its memes, ever die?

>>971417
He's really good looking though.

Talleyrand

On Napoleon "What a pity the man wasn't lazy."

on Diplomacy "A diplomat who says 'yes' means maybe. A diplomat who says 'maybe' means no. A diplomat who says 'no' is no diplomat."

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Really makes you think.

>>971136
He never said this.

"As the late great colonial sanders once said, 'im to drunk to taste this chicken'"

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>>971494
"As the great late colonel sandler once said, 'im way to chicken to taste this drunk'"

>>971136
That's Caracella, far a man from Marcus Aurelius.

>>971525
The quote isn't real either

>>971532
You're not real

>>971591
damn....

>>971456
>mfw I was born diplomat

Time to switch career

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"Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received by them, I nourish myself on that food that alone is mine and for which I was born; where I am unashamed to converse with them and to question them about the motives for their actions, and they, out of their human kindness, answer me."

>>971151
I'm pretty sure this pic is wrong
It's been a while since I've read Meditations though

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>>971396
Everytime

>>971151
Haha, no.

>>971136
>This comment is very profound.

It's infantile.

>>974307
>"it's infantile because it offends my very specific worldview"

Typical Christcuck

>>971151
>there exist gods
fuck yeah give me Greco-Roman paganism any day

>>974324
No, it's infantile because it's literally a fake quote which was manufactured to be shared around Facebook and Reddit by "enlightened" cretins like you.

>>975109
#rekt

>>971136
Begs the question eh

>>971367
both

>>971894
>>974293
>>974324
The OP quote is completely fabricated, you won't find it anywhere in his writings