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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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BOOK XII<br />

ANIMULA VAGULA BLANDULA,<br />

HOSPES COMESQUE CORPORIS,<br />

QUAE NUNC ABIBIS IN LOCA ? Hadrian<br />

1 ALL the good things <strong>to</strong> which you pray sooner<br />

or later <strong>to</strong> attain may be yours at once, if<br />

only you will not stand in your own way ; if<br />

only, leaving the past alone and committing the<br />

future <strong>to</strong> the hand <strong>of</strong> providence, you will direct<br />

the present and that only, in the way<br />

<strong>of</strong> holi-<br />

ness and justice : <strong>of</strong> holiness, that you may be<br />

glad in your apportioned lot, nature's assignment,<br />

it for you and you for it ; <strong>of</strong> justice, that<br />

you may freely and without subterfuge speak<br />

truth and follow law and treat things at their<br />

worth, knowing<br />

no contravention from evil in<br />

another, nor from false view within, nor from<br />

sound nor yet sensation <strong>of</strong> this fleshly shell : for

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