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“The things… which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 41
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

Understanding

“Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

X, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

“Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

IX, 31
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
Context: Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

Justice , Freedom

“Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 30
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Context: Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Understanding

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

People , Tear

“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?”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

World

“All things fade and quickly turn to myth.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
V, 16
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

Color , Soul , Thinking

“All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Life , Dreams

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VI, 3
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

“It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Men , Flying

“And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

Star

“All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII, 1

“If…it be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VIII, 45
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Hays translation
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
II, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II

Nature , Chance

“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

Nature

“As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

III, 13
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

Understanding

“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 4