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Contents Title Page Chronology Half Title Page Introduction by Gregory Hays Book 1: Debts and Lessons Book 2: On the River Gran, Among the Quadi Book 3: In Carnuntum Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12 Notes Index of Persons About the Translator The Modern Library Editorial Board Copyright Meditations
Page 3: Marcus Aurelius Meditations A New T
Page 7 and 8: Introduction Gregory Hays Marcus Au
Page 9 and 10: empire, writers like Lucretius, Cic
Page 11 and 12: queries from provincial governors a
Page 13 and 14: wiped out a Roman garrison that had
Page 15 and 16: Now in his fifties, Marcus was in d
Page 17 and 18: Stoicism Of the doctrines central t
Page 19 and 20: Athens, in an ancient version of th
Page 21 and 22: not only in its content, but also i
Page 23 and 24: social animals, a point he makes of
Page 25 and 26: A score of other entries could be c
Page 27 and 28: Empedocles’ image of the self-con
Page 29 and 30: Best Books. He would have been surp
Page 31 and 32: individuals in his life, either dir
Page 33 and 34: whether he has hit the target the f
Page 35 and 36: opportunity. One can lead a good li
Page 37 and 38: doctrine endows it. It is not easy
Page 39 and 40: of passages that are garbled or in
Page 41 and 42: intellectual culture in the second
Page 43 and 44: special mention: Matthew Arnold’s
Page 45 and 46: differences otherwise. Attempts to
Page 47 and 48: 1. MY GRANDFATHER VERUS Character a
Page 49 and 50: Not to be constantly correcting peo
Page 51 and 52: His attitude to the gods: no supers
Page 53 and 54: failed, it’s no one’s fault but
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1. When you wake up in the morning,
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My nature. How I relate to the worl
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15. “Everything is just an impres
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1. Not just that every day more of
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happens. With what leaves us dyed i
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9. Your ability to control your tho
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e approached in purity, in serenity
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1. Our inward power, when it obeys
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the heat and fire from theirs—sin
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Does anything genuinely beautiful n
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logos.” And with nothing to read,
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everything that makes stupid people
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Book 5
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say or do it, then it’s the right
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So there are two reasons to embrace
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14. The logos and its employment ar
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Time. How brief and fleeting your a
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34. You can lead an untroubled life
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1. Nature is pliable, obedient. And
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of their own minds—to avoid all s
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Don’t worry about how long you’
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humans feel less responsibility to
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45. Whatever happens to you is for
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59. The people they want to ingrati
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1. Evil: the same old thing. No mat
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eward. You’re still seeing it onl
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28. Self-contraction: the mind’s
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47. To watch the courses of the sta
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59. Dig deep; the water—goodness
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71. It’s silly to try to escape o
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1. Another encouragement to humilit
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10. Remorse is annoyance at yoursel
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Hadrian, leaving Celer. And Celer.
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Then remind yourself that past and
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Then depart, with a good conscience
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object that stands in its way and b
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1. Injustice is a kind of blasphemy
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5. And you can also commit injustic
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found—not in being done to, but i
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themselves its student is for them
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you think the gods don’t care abo
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Book 10
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In your interest, or in your nature
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And as you try to keep these epithe
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19. How they act when they eat and
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With Alciphron, see Tropaeophorus.
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me” is like eyes that can only st
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1. Characteristics of the rational
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There are undeniably good passages,
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unmistakable. 16. To live a good li
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x. That to expect bad people not to
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34. As you kiss your son good night
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1. Everything you’re trying to re
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Shortness of life. Vastness of time
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21. That before long you’ll be no
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it. There’s nothing more insuffer
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Notes 1.1 My grandfather Verus:: Ve
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“Those who have forgotten . . .
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criticism of the Epicureans’ view
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Index of Persons This list covers o
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EMPEDOCLES: Fifth-century B.C. Gree
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Rome precipitated civil war in 49,
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ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR GREGORY HAYS i
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Gore Vidal
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