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Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal



"In conformity to the nature of the

universe everything is accomplished."



look at the thing itself

Stoicism in the Time of Plague



Observe how ephemeral and worthless human bodies are.

What was yesterday a body, tomorrow will be ashes.

Pass then through this little space of time in conformance with nature, and end thy journey contented, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Whether the universe is a concourse of atoms, or nature is a system, let this first be established, I am a part of the whole which is governed by nature.

I am intimately related to the parts which are of the same category as myself.

By remembering, then, that I am a part of such a whole, I shall be content.





Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things.

How many a Socrates, how many an Epictetus has time swallowed up?

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that existence may be ever new.

Nature delights in change, and in obedience to her all things are done for everything that exists is the seed of that which will be.

Those who do not observe their thoughts must of necessity be unhappy.



a noble life

"He who transgresses nature, is clearly guilty
of impiety towards the highest divinity
."


All things happen according to the universal nature.

Close is kinship between a man and the human race, a community.

Every man's intelligence is in flux and rises or falls accordingly to nature.

Nothing is a man's own, his body and his very soul came from nature.

Take notice of the past and trust the future to providence.

Be content with life, for nature designed it for thee and thee for it.

If you are delighted with what is shown on the stage, you should not be troubled with that which takes place on the larger stage.

Make for thyself a definition of all objects so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing it is in substance, in essence, tell thyself its proper name.

Examine methodically and truly every object.

To care for all men is according to man's nature.

A man should embrace the opinion of those who live in accord with nature.

Remember even though man is a rational animal when men disagree let them not drive thee from thy benevolent feelings towards them.

When thou hast failed to abide by right principles return back again.

Anyone afraid of an operation of nature, he is a child.

Short is the little time which remains to thee of life.

Live climbing a mountain.

It makes no difference where a man lives, he lives everywhere.

Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature.

Consider thyself dead, to have completed thy life up to the present time.

Live according to thy nature the remainder of thy life.



Marcus Aurelius



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