Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · translated by Meric Casaubon, 1634
Contents
- Book I
Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. From the fame and memory of him …
- Book II
Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the …
- Book III
A man must not only consider how daily his life wasteth and decreaseth, but this also, that if he live long, he cannot be certain, whether …
- Book IV
That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, is towards all worldly chances and events ever so disposed and …
- Book V
In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am …
- Book VI
The matter itself, of which the universe doth consist, is of itself very tractable and pliable. That rational essence that doth govern it, …
- Book VII
What is wickedness? It is that which many time and often thou hast already seen and known in the world. And so oft as anything doth happen …
- Book VIII
This also, among other things, may serve to keep thee from vainglory; if thou shalt consider, that thou art now altogether incapable of the …
- Book IX
He that is unjust, is also impious. For the nature of the universe, having made all reasonable creatures one for another, to the end that …
- Book X
O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, single, more open and visible, than that body by which it is …
- Book XI
The natural properties, and privileges of a reasonable soul are: That she seeth herself; that she can order, and compose herself: that she …
- Book XII
Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness. …
Cite this text
Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Translated by Meric Casaubon. 1634. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/meditations-casaubon.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, trans. Meric Casaubon (1634), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/meditations-casaubon.
Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Translated by Meric Casaubon, 1634. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/meditations-casaubon.
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