Meditations
Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be ...
products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why. Or how ripe figs begin to bu ...
this life. Heraclitus often told us the world would end in fire. But it was moisture that carried him off; he died smeared with ...
are you thinking about?” you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that. And it would be o ...
Which doesn’t mean we have to share their opinions. We should listen only to those whose lives conform to nature. And the others ...
anything better than justice, honesty, self-control, courage— than a mind satisfied that it has succeeded in enabling you to act ...
—Best is what benefits me. As a rational being? Then follow through. Or just as an animal? Then say so and stand your ground wit ...
Neither servility nor arrogance. Neither cringing nor disdain. Neither excuses nor evasions. Your ability to control your thoug ...
households. What is it—this thing that now forces itself on my notice? What is it made up of? How long was it designed to last? ...
No one can prevent that. Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready t ...
rutting humans, and tyrants (from Phalaris to Nero.. .). To make your mind your guide to what seems best: even people who deny t ...
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Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces—to what is possible. It needs ...
harmony. So keep getting away from it all—like that. Renew yourself. But keep it brief and basic. A quick visit should be enough ...
Or is it your body? Keep in mind that when the mind detaches itself and realizes its own nature, it no longer has anything to do ...
“The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.” If thought is something we share, then so is reason—what makes ...
Not an embarrassing thing. Not an offense to reason, or our nature. That sort of person is bound to do that. You might as well ...
Two kinds of readiness are constantly needed: (i) to do only what the logos of authority and law directs, with the good of huma ...
and honor the logos. Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able—b ...
and sufficient to themselves. Praise is extraneous. The object of praise remains what it was—no better and no worse. This applie ...
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