Grant, Michael (30. desember 2011): The Climax Of Rome. Orion. ISBN 978-1-78022-276-9. s. 15. Oversettelse ved Wikipedia for anledningen. Originalsitat: «The youth turned out to be very erratic, or at least so anti-traditional that disaster was inevitable. But whether or not Marcus ought to have known this to be so, the rejections of his son's claims in favour of someone else would almost certainly have involved one of the civil wars which were to proliferate so disastrously around future successions.»
Pulleyblank, Edwin G.; Leslie, D. D.; Gardiner, K. H. J. (1999): «The Roman Empire as Known to Han China» i: Journal of the American Oriental Society119 (1): 71–79. doi:10.2307/605541. JSTOR 605541.
Pulleyblank, Edwin G.; Leslie, D. D.; Gardiner, K. H. J. (1999): «The Roman Empire as Known to Han China» i: Journal of the American Oriental Society119 (1): 71–79. doi:10.2307/605541. JSTOR 605541.
Incriptiones Latinae Selectae1091Arkivert 29. april 2012 hos Wayback Machine.; Birley (1966): Marcus Aurelius, s. 123.
Incriptiones Latinae Selectae2311Arkivert 29. april 2012 hos Wayback Machine.; Birley (1966): Marcus Aurelius, s. 123.
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae1098Arkivert 2. juni 2017 hos Wayback Machine.; Birley (1966): Marcus Aurelius, s. 130.
latimes.com
David L. Ulin (5. desember 2013). «Nelson Mandela, remembered through his books». Los Angeles Times. Besøkt 4. mai 2021. «Harris’ assertion comes in his introduction to “Conversations With Myself,” which was “inspired most directly by Marcus Aurelius’s ‘Meditations’” and featured a foreword by Barack Obama, another transformational politician who owes Mandela an enormous debt»
Beard, Mary (23. juli 2009): «Was He Quite Ordinary?», London Review of Books 31:14; Birley (1967): Marcus Aurelius, s. 226.
military-history.org
«Pius, en av de keiserne som tjenestegjorde lengst, ble svakelig i sine siste år, slik at Marcus Aurelius overtok gradvis de keiserlige pliktene. På den tiden da han etterfulgte i 161, var han allerede erfaren i offentlig administrasjon.» Sitatet er fra filosofen Iain King, som skrev om Aurelius in Thinkers At War, publisert august 2014.
