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Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.Carolyn SeeWilliam StyronGore Vidal
2002 Modern Library EditionIntroduction and notes copyright © 2002 by Gregory HaysAll rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.Published in the United States by Modern Library, a division of Random House, Inc., NewYork, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.MODERN LIBRARY and the TORCHBEARER Design are registered trademarks of RandomHouse, Inc.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATAMarcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121–180.[Meditations. English]Meditations / Marcus Aurelius; translated, and with an introduction, by Gregory Hays.p. cm.e-ISBN 1-58836-173-X1. Ethics. 2. Stoics. 3. Life. I. Hays, Gregory. II. Title.B580.H3 M3713 2002188—dc21 2001057947Modern Library website address: www.modernlibrary.comv1.0
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Marcus AureliusMeditationsA New Tra
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NotesIndex of PersonsAbout the Tran
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IntroductionGregory HaysMarcus Aure
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instructors, like the unnamed teach
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Hadrian’s death the following yea
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sources, in particular the gossipy
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footsteps of Antoninus and Trajan,
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Roman garrison that had gone to the
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that decade. And most of the burden
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permanent, and in 178, Marcus and C
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doctrine and provided little in the
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choices and actions, even though th
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his own day, the poet Horace famous
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Cato, Thrasea, and Helvidius were d
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Stoic sources, can be discerned als
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attribute to the brain or the heart
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does not. All human beings have a s
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Everywhere, at each moment, you hav
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premises of the system developed by
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It is from Heraclitus that Marcus d
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component atoms. This process is no
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book. In the lost Greek manuscript
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of philosophy as your instructor, b
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Book 1) we find the same voice, the
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Not a dancer but a wrestler . . . (
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To try to extract a sustained and c
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hardly be quoted or alluded to, but
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time accepting. The gods care for m
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orthodox Stoic doctrine endows it.
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the tenth century it reappears in a
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beside the greater bulk of Epictetu
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the so-called Historia Augusta. Bir
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of two modern novels set in the Ant
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His Meditations,” Journal of Roma
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gladiatorial combat and the brutal
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and have marked with an obelus (< .
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1. MY GRANDFATHER VERUSCharacter an
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7. RUSTICUSThe recognition that I n
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the principles we ought to live by.
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And to help others and be eager to
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His searching questions at meetings
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but sticking with the same old plac
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That I had the kind of brother I di
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All things for which “we need the
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1. When you wake up in the morning,
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yourself from all other distraction
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you to harm. And if they don’t ex
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Remember two things:i. that everyth
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dependent on anyone else’s doing
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1. Not just that every day more of
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this life. Heraclitus often told us
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Which doesn’t mean we have to sha
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—Best is what benefits me.As a ra
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households.What is it—this thing
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rutting humans, and tyrants (from P
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1. Our inward power, when it obeys
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Or is it your body? Keep in mind th
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Not an embarrassing thing. Not an o
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and honor the logos.17. Not to live
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entombed in the bodies of those nou
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29. Alien: (n.) one who doesn’t k
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oblivion covers it.And those are th
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once and already carried past us, a
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it upwithout complaint.Like an oliv
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Book 5
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below your quota.You don’t love y
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6. Some people, when they do someon
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case, let’s accept it—as we acc
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putting up with yourself. In such d
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recurrent cycles.14. The logos and
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alone. It takes the things before i
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keeping those feelings in their pla
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soul with skill and understanding?
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Where's the danger for the communit
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1. Nature is pliable, obedient. And
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Or suppose (ii): Reverence. Serenit
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should we value when none of them c
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your own self, well integrated into
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26. If someone asked you how to wri
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So that when your time comes, your
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other, and breathe together, and ar
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And if they make no decisions, abou
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The only thing that isn’t worthle
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less powerful than bile or a rabid
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1. Evil: the same old thing.No matt
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same resources to draw on—the sam
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conceives of them in the first plac
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everything you see and use it as ma
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long for and fear. Events like pile
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48. [Plato has it right.] If you wa
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Everything has to do what it was ma
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63. “Against our will, our souls
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keeping your mind calm—reliably s
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Book 8
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Through first principles. Which sho
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For overcoming pain and pleasure, y
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18. What dies doesn’t vanish. It
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dead. Some of them not remembered a
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Not to behaving with justice, self-
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38. The stench of decay. Rotting me
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degraded—miserable, tense, huddle
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the world will laugh at you, just a
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person is harmed by it—and he can
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Book 9
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to find himself constantly reproach
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meaningless to those you leave behi
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however much they try to avoid it,
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18. Enter their minds, and you’ll
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28. The world’s cycles never chan
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Which means: thought and action res
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That’s all there is.And the gods?
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Like that. In illness—or any othe
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Book 10
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censure?2. Focus on what nature dem
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transformation). If the process is
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that you’ve been—to keep being
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all he does, and nature in all that
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Or that everything was born to die.
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his takes it and goes to work, and
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That way you’ll see human life fo
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34. If you’ve immersed yourself i
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they want me gone, in hopes that it
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1. Characteristics of the rational
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But the resolution has to be the re
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8. A branch cut away from the branc
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looking at the truth, without and w
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Page 292 and 293: Index of PersonsThis list covers on
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Page 304 and 305: ABOUT THE TRANSLATORGREGORY HAYS is
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