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It created lower things for the sake of higher ones, and attuned the higher ones to one another. Look how it subordinates, how it connects, how it assigns each thing what each deserves, and brings the better things into alignment. 31. How have you behaved to the gods, to your parents, to your siblings, to your wife, to your children, to your teachers, to your nurses, to your friends, to your relatives, to your slaves? Have they all had from you nothing “wrong and unworthy, either word or deed”? Consider all that you’ve gone through, all that you’ve survived. And that the story of your life is done, your assignment complete. How many good things have you seen? How much pain and pleasure have you resisted? How many honors have you declined? How many unkind people have you been kind to? 32. Why do other souls—unskilled, untrained—disturb the soul with skill and understanding? —And which is that? The one that knows the beginning and the end, and knows the logos that runs through all things and that assigns to all a place, each in its allotted span, throughout the whole of time. 33. Soon you’ll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children—laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later. Trust, shame, justice, truth—“gone from the earth and only found in heaven.” Why are you still here? Sensory objects are shifting and unstable; our senses dim and easily deceived; the soul itself a decoction of the blood; fame in a world like this is worthless. —And so? Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis. —And until that time comes—what? Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.
34. You can lead an untroubled life provided you can grow, can think and act systematically. Two characteristics shared by gods and men (and every rational creature): i. Not to let others hold you back. ii. To locate goodness in thinking and doing the right thing, and to limit your desires to that. 35. If: • this evil is not of my doing, • nor the result of it, • and the community is not endangered, why should it bother me? Where's the danger for the community? 36. Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should. And if < . . . > suffer in inessentials, not to treat that as a defeat. (Bad habit.) Like the old man asking for the orphan’s toy on the way out—even though he knew that’s all it was. Like that. 36a. † Up on the platform. † Have you forgotten what’s what? —I know, but it was important to them. And so you have to be an idiot as well? 37. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
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Marcus Aurelius Meditations A New T
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Meditations
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Meditations to his father’s chara
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surely Marcus’s adopted father, A
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Another area where Marcus’s polic
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seriously weakened the Roman positi
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underlies the work, but also with t
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fuse drives the flower,” and is p
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Cato, Thrasea, and Helvidius were d
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with which he addresses these quest
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us (by others or by nature). We con
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(especially in Book 7), and Socrati
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and exploratory, like the notes of
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aw quotations from tragedies in Boo
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transience. All things change or pa
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heaven.’ Why are you still here?
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1. To my soul: Are you ever going t
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which they came. Because our elemen
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12. Why all this guesswork? You can
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law, which governs what happens to
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which the logos is carried through
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Book 11
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Apply this to life as a whole. 3. T
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matter, if we are naive, gullible,
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Even if cowardice has kept you from
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There is no common benchmark for al
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happen, the impositions of the body
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15. The lamp shines until it is put
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Arrogance . . . about this? 25. Thr
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32. The fraction of infinity, of th
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2. On the River Gran, Among the Qua
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how you perceive it” (12.8), thou
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11.31 “But my heart rejoiced”::
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CAEDICIANUS: Perhaps identical with
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HIPPOCRATES: Greek doctor active in
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iography of him by Suetonius. (12.2
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