The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Aurelius · translated by George Long, 1862
Contents
- Book I
From my grandfather Verus [I learned] good morals and the government of my …
- Book II
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these …
- Book III
We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but another thing also must be taken …
- Book IV
That which rules within, when it is according to nature, is so affected with respect to the events which happened, that it always easily …
- Book V
In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,--I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I …
- Book VI
The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has …
- Book VII
What is badness? It is that which thou hast often seen. And on the occasion of everything which happens keep this in mind, that it is that …
- Book VIII
This reflection also tends to the removal of the desire of empty fame, that it is no longer in thy power to have lived the whole of thy …
- Book IX
He who acts unjustly acts impiously. For since the universal nature has made rational animals for the sake of one another, to help one …
- Book X
Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? Wilt thou never …
- Book XI
These are the properties of the rational soul: it sees itself, analyzes itself, and makes itself such as it chooses; the fruit which it …
- Book XII
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself. And …
Cite this text
Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long. 1862. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/meditations-long.
Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus, trans. George Long (1862), The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/meditations-long.
Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long, 1862. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/meditations-long.
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