The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius AntoninusLittle, Brown, 1892 - 296 pages |
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The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) Affichage du livre entier - 1894 |
The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) Affichage du livre entier - 1923 |
The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) Affichage du livre entier - 1876 |
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able according to nature anger Antoninus Pius art thou Avidius Cassius Bishop Butler body cause Christians Cicero Commodus common conformable consider constitution corrupt death Deity Dion Cassius divinity doest dost thou emperor Epictetus Euripides Eusebius everything evil exist fame formed by nature Gataker give gods Hadrian harm Heraclitus HESIOD intelligence judgment justice Justinus kind live look man's nature manner Marcomanni Marcus matter meaning Melitene notion observe opinion pain passage Perdiccas perish philosophy Plato pleasure present Quadi rational animal reason remember rescript respect Roman ruling faculty ruling principles says sense Socrates soul speak Stoic substance things which happen thou art thou canst thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou shouldst thou wilt thoughts thy mind thy nature thy power thyself Trajan tranquillity translation trouble truth understand universal nature Verus vexed VIII virtue whole wilt thou word of bad wrong Zeus
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Page 75 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 67 - For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
Page 143 - Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind ; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then with a continuous series of such thoughts as these : for instance, that where a man can live, there he can also live well.
Page 75 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 82 - From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich. 4. From my great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.
Page 115 - No longer wander at hazard; for neither wilt thou read thy own memoirs, nor the acts of the ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the selections from books which thou wast reserving for thy old age. Hasten then to the end which thou hast before thee, and, throwing away idle hopes, come to thy own aid, if thou carest at all for thyself, while it is in thy power.
Page 159 - When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of the virtues of those who live with thee; for instance, the activity of one, and the modesty of another, and the liberality of a third, and some other good quality of a fourth.
Page 88 - I observed too his habit of careful inquiry in all matters of deliberation, and his persistency, and that he never stopped his investigation through being satisfied with appearances which first present themselves ; and that his disposition was to keep his friends, and not to be soon tired of them, nor yet to be extravagant in his...
Page 61 - Generally, wickedness does no harm at all to the universe; and particularly, the wickedness [of one man] does no harm to another. It is only harmful to him who has it in his power to be released from it, as soon as he shall choose.
Page 167 - ... and co-operating with the whole, as the parts of our body with one another. How many a Chrysippus, how many a Socrates, how many an Epictetus has time already swallowed up ! And let the same thought occur to thee with reference to every man and thing (v.