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156 MARCUS ANTONINUS BOOK for giving our nature play we should view as a form of enjoyment. Atfd the opening is always there. The cylinder indeed cannot always enjoy its proper motion ; neither can water, nor fire, nor things which are at the disposition organic of the lower nature or of irrational soul : in their case lets and obstacles abound. But mind and reason have the power of finding a way at will through every impediment. Picture the facility with which reason will find itself a way, as that by which fire ascends, or a stone drops, or a cylinder rolls downhill it leaves nothing more to crave for. Remaining interferences either affect the body only, which is a dead thing, or else, apart from the assumptions and admissions of reason itself, have no power to crush or to inflict any injury what- soever ; otherwise the person exposed to them would thereby be injured. For observe in the case of all other forms of being, any injury be- falling them implies deterioration of the object ; but in this case the man is one may say bettered and improved, by making good use of circum- stances. Nothing in fine can hurt the true citizen, which does not hurt the city ; and nothing can hurt the city, which does not first hurt Law. But
x TO HIMSELF 157 misadventures so-called hurt not the Law : fore they hurt not city, nor yet citizen. there- When once true principles have bitten in, even the shortest and most trite of precepts serves as a safeguard against the spirit of brooding or fear. For instance As wind-shed leaves on the sod. . . . Such are the children of men. 1 As autumn leaves thy little ones ! and as leaves too the crowd who shout their heartening plaudits or heap their curses, or in secret cavil and gibe ; as leaves too, even those who will succeed to fame hereafter ! These are but all, and the like of them, Blossoming buds of the spring-time, which the wind scatters, and a new foliage clothes another wood. Transitoriness is written upon them all ; and yet you seek or shun, as though they would last for ever. A little while, and you will close your eyes : and will sound for him who bore your bier. anon the dirge The healthy eye should see all that comes 35 ' ' in sight, and not say, I want things green the confession of weak eyes. Healthy hearing, 1 Homer, //. vi. 147-8. 34
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TA EIC EAYTON MARCUS AURELIUS ANTON
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MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS TO HIMSEL
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PREFACE ENGLISH translations of Mar
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PREFACE v may be, the manner, tone,
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may gain PREFACE vii as much or mor
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PREFACE ix In choice of readings I
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INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON STOICISM AND
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xv have been
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xvii tried in
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xix ' 1 air f
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xxi moralised
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xxiii phenome
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xxv are resol
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xxvii confusi
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i ORIGINS OF STOICISM xxix universe
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SECT, ii i BIRTH OF STOICISM xxxi k
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ii i BIRTH OF STOICISM xxxiii order
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ii i BIRTH OF STOICISM xxxv theory
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ii i BIRTH OF STOICISM xxxvii well
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ii 2 BIRTH OF STOICISM xxxix the co
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ii 2 BIRTH OF STOICISM xli and proc
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ii 2 BIRTH OF STOICISM xliii of the
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n 2 BIRTH OF STOICISM xlv raitted t
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ii 2 BIRTH OF STOICISM xlvii change
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ii 2 BIRTH OF STOICISM xlix of man
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SECT, in i STOIC DOGMA li thought o
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in i STOIC DOGMA liii Epicurean in
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in i STOIC DOGMA Iv it * sparked,'
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in i STOIC DOGMA Ivii gives that ba
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in 2 STOIC DOGMA lix 2. Cosmic Pant
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in 2 STOIC DOGMA Ixi deniable purpo
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in 2 STOIC DOGMA Ixiii entering on
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in 2 STOIC DOGMA Ixv and beneficent
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in 2 STOIC DOGMA Ixvii Lead me, O Z
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in 3 STOIC DOGMA Ixix his inner con
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in 3 STOIC DOGMA Ixxi with the supe
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in 3 STOIC DOGMA Ixxiii tain, throu
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in 4 STOIC DOGMA Ixxv which marks t
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in 4 STOIC DOGMA Ixxvii of virtues,
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in 4 STOIC DOGMA Ixxix partly on th
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in 4 STOIC DOGMA Ixxxi indefeasible
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in 4 STOIC DOGMA Ixxxiii grapple wi
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IV. STOICISM IN HISTORY HISTORICALL
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iv STOICISM IN HISTORY Ixxxvii phil
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iv STOICISM IN HISTORY Ixxxix famou
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iv STOICISM IN HISTORY xci Mytholog
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iv STOICISM IN HISTORY xciii though
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iv STOICISM IN HISTORY xcv almost i
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iv STOICISM IN HISTORY xcvii Column
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civ INTRODUCTION SECT. stand, to di
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cvi INTRODUCTION SECT. that, qualit
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cviii INTRODUCTION SECT. transitory
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ex INTRODUCTION SECT. and intelligi
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cxii INTRODUCTION SECT. theatre-goi
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cxiv INTRODUCTION SECT. philosopher
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cxvi INTRODUCTION SECT. mere record
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cxviii INTRODUCTION SECT. offer of
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cxx INTRODUCTION SECT. this it is w
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cxxii INTRODUCTION SECT. taking cou
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cxxiv INTRODUCTION SECT. among comp
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cxxvi INTRODUCTION SECT. where in t
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cxxviii INTRODUCTION SECT. /^intima
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cxxx INTRODUCTION SECT. in convicti
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\ cxxxii INTRODUCTION SECT. and eve
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cxxxiv INTRODUCTION SECT. The indiv
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cxxxvi INTRODUCTION SECT. vistas of
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cxxxviii INTRODUCTION SECT. ' world
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cxl INTRODUCTION SECT. individualis
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cxlii INTRODUCTION SECT. steeped in
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cxliv INTRODUCTION SECT. /The funer
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cxlvi INTRODUCTION SECT, v barbaria
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BOOK I MeMNHCO TCON FROM my grandfa
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i TO HIMSELF 3 not to give hasty as
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i TO HIMSELF 5 From my brother Veru
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i TO HIMSELF 7 of any kind he kept
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i TO HIMSELF 9 There was no pervers
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BOOK ii MARCUS ANTONINUS 13 one for
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ii TO HIMSELF 15 Is violence done y
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ii TO HIMSELF 17 vided, putting wit
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ii TO HIMSELF 19 life than that whi
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ii TO HIMSELF 21 lacking for naught
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BOOK in MARCUS ANTONINUS 23 Watch w
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in TO HIMSELF 25 planning, or anyth
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in TO HIMSELF 27 Does man's life of
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in TO HIMSELF 29 still incomplete,
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in TO HIMSELF 31 ously, and conside
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BOOK IV CK coy r^P T^NOC ecMGN. CLE
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iv TO HIMSELF 35 when the understan
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iv TO HIMSELF 37 result is inevitab
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iv TO HIMSELF 39 not looking at wha
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iv TO HIMSELF 41 Do not be dazed by
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iv TO HIMSELF 43 munity of reason ;
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iv TO HIMSELF 45 fame ? Just emptin
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iv TO HIMSELF 47 All that befalls i
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iv TO HIMSELF 49 falls when it is r
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BOOK V IN the morning, when you fee
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v TO HIMSELF 53 I walk the ways of
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v TO HIMSELF 55 ing, it will make y
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v TO HIMSELF 57 ing the perfection
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v TO HIMSELF 59 have I now ? the ch
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v TO HIMSELF 61 man's true end lie
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TO HIMSELF 63 hindrance to action i
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v TO HIMSELF 65 to every man for hi
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v TO HIMSELF 67 what is a name but
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BOOK VI NOYC AieKo'cMHce TT&NT&. AN
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vi TO HIMSELF 71 not break tune or
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vi TO HIMSELF 73 current of time pe
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vi TO HIMSELF 75 yet themselves set
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vi TO HIMSELF 77 steadily to these,
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vi TO HIMSELF 79 I am of body and s
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vi TO HIMSELF 81 with it ; though t
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vi TO HIMSELF 83 they did, and the
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vi TO HIMSELF 85 characters of thos
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BOOK VII AC\(MCON. HERACLITUS HGoc
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vii TO HIMSELF 89 what is opportune
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vii TO HIMSELF 91 is to be good ; j
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vii TO HIMSELF 93 you ; your was be
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vii TO HIMSELF 95 Gods or atoms, it
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vii TO HIMSELF 97 himself or assign
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vii TO HIMSELF 99 disciplined to ci
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vii TO HIMSELF 101 that on which ac
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viz TO HIMSELF 103 one may have one
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