Meditations
[Plato has it right.] If you want to talk about people, you need to look down on the earth from above. Herds, armies, farms; we ...
51a. “To labor cheerfully and so endure The wind that blows from heaven.” A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better ...
Everything has to do what it was made for. And other things were made for those with logos. In this respect as in others: lower ...
And now where are they? Nowhere. Is that what you want to be like? Instead of avoiding all these distracting assaults—leaving th ...
“Against our will, our souls are cut off from truth.” Truth, yes, and justice, self-control, kindness... Important to keep thi ...
whether he debated with the sophists more adeptly, whether he showed greater endurance by spending the night out in the cold, an ...
keeping your mind calm—reliably sizing up what’s around you—and ready to make good use of whatever happens? So that Judgment can ...
You’ve given aid and they’ve received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Dee ...
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Another encouragement to humility: you can’t claim to have lived your life as a philosopher—not even your whole adulthood. You ...
Through first principles. Which should govern your intentions and your actions. —What principles? Those to do with good and evil ...
The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human b ...
For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people—even ...
Physics. Ethics. Logic. When you have to deal with someone, ask yourself: What does he mean by good and bad? If he thinks x or ...
What dies doesn’t vanish. It stays here in the world, transformed, dissolved, as parts of the world, and of you. Which are tran ...
And the whole earth a mere point in space. Stick to what’s in front of you—idea, action, utterance. 22a. This is what you dese ...
dead. Some of them not remembered at all, some become legends, some lost even to legend. So remember: your components will be sc ...
evil can touch them. To erase false perceptions, tell yourself: I have it in me to keep my soul from evil, lust and all confusi ...
Not to behaving with justice, self-control, and good sense. —Well, but perhaps to some more concrete action. But if you accept t ...
We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. J ...
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