Selections from the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius for Every Day in the YearPrinted on the Mergenthaler Linotypes, 1888 - 54 էջ |
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Selections from the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius for Every Day in the Year Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1888 |
Selections from the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius for Every Day in the Year Sara Carr Upton Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2015 |
Selections From the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius: For Every Day in the Year ... Sara Carr Upton Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2015 |
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according to nature Accustom thyself APRIL art thou AUGUST bear it nobly blame common death DECEMBER deity planted difference to thee disposition divine endure eral erect.-VII everything evil exist fame FEBRUARY fig tree formed by nature God.-VII gods happen to thee harm human.-III JANUARY jaundiced JULY JUNE just.-X justice justly.-IV keep the spirit kind leisure or ability Let him look live according man's nature man's wrong act MARCH MARCUS AURELIUS men.-VI men.-VII modesty ness NOVEMBER OCTOBER pleasure or pain praised rational reason remember retire Reverence SARA CARR UPTON SEPTEMBER social Socrates terrene thee.-IV thee.-VI them.-VIII thing.-IX thou art thou canst thou didst thou dost thou hast assumed thou mayest thou shalt thou shouldest THOUGHTS OF MARCUS thy duty thy opinion thy power thy ruling faculty thy soul thy thoughts trouble truth turn to thyself universal nature vexed VIII way.-VI wrong to thyself Zeus
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Էջ 22 - One man, when he has done a service to another, is ready to set it down to his account as a favor conferred. Another is not ready to do this, but still in his own mind he thinks of the man as his debtor, and he knows what he has done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit.
Էջ 27 - When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts ; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.
Էջ 18 - 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 like them.
Էջ 20 - Remember too on every occasion which leads thee to vexation to apply this principle: not that this is a misfortune, but that to bear it nobly is good fortune.
Էջ 20 - 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 dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world...
Էջ 20 - Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
Էջ 3 - Every moment think steadily as a Roman * and a man, to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and" simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice ; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy...
Էջ 28 - If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
Էջ 34 - WHATEVER any one does or says, I must be good ; just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying this, " Whatever any one else does, I must be emerald and keep my color.
Էջ 11 - For nothing is so productive of elevation of mind as to be able to examine methodically and truly every object which is presented to thee in life, and always to look at things so as to see at the same time what kind of universe this is...