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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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76 MARCUS ANTONINUS BOOK<br />

things without reason, or things misguided, that<br />

know not the way.<br />

23 You have reason ; unreasoning creatures and<br />

the world <strong>of</strong> material things have none :<br />

therefore<br />

in your dealings with them rise superior and free.<br />

Men have reason ;<br />

therefore in your dealings with<br />

them, own the social tie. In all things call upon<br />

the gods. And trouble not over the time it<br />

occupies ;<br />

three hours so spent avail.<br />

24 Death put Alexander <strong>of</strong> Macedon and his<br />

stable boy on a par. Either they were received<br />

in<strong>to</strong> the seminal principles <strong>of</strong> the universe, or were<br />

alike dispersed in<strong>to</strong> a<strong>to</strong>ms.<br />

25 Consider how many things, physical and<br />

psychical, go<br />

within each one <strong>of</strong> us ;<br />

on at one and the same moment<br />

no wonder then that many<br />

more, yea all things created, co-inhere <strong>to</strong>gether in<br />

the one great whole, which we call the universe.<br />

is <strong>An<strong>to</strong>ninus</strong><br />

26 If some one asks you, ' How<br />

spelt ? ', will you excite yourself<br />

over the utterance<br />

<strong>of</strong> each letter ? Well then, if some one flies in<strong>to</strong><br />

a rage, are you going <strong>to</strong> rage back ? Will you<br />

not rather quietly enumerate the characters in<br />

order one by<br />

one ? Here <strong>to</strong>o remember that<br />

every duty is the sum <strong>of</strong> given units. Keep

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