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Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it…. Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
IX, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
“Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)”
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Οὐδὲν οὐδενὶ συμβαίνει ὃ οὐχὶ ἐκεῖνο πέφυκε φέρειν.
V, 18
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
“Leaves, some the wind scatters on the ground—So is the race of man.”
Leaves, also, are thy children; and leaves, too, are they who cry out so if they are worthy of credit, or bestow their praise, or on the contrary curse, or secretly blame and sneer; and leaves, in like manner, are those who shall receive and transmit a man's fame to after-times. For all such things as these "are produced in the season of spring," as the poet says; then the wind casts them down; then the forest produces other leaves in their places. But a brief existence is common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and pursuest all things as if they would be eternal.
X, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Is it a sign of self-respect to regret nearly everything you do?
Hays translation
VIII, 53
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
for then thou wilt use them well, and they will be material for thee. Only attend to thyself, and resolve to be a good man in every act which thou doest; and remember...
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII, 58
Variant Translation: Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already.
VII, 27
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“No thefts of free will reported.”
Hays translation
XI, 36
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book XI
“Pain is the opposite of strength, and so is anger.”
Hays translation
XI, 18
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book XI
“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own”
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IX
“It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.”
Hays translation
VII, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“I can control my thoughts as necessary; then how can I be troubled?”
Hays translation
VII, 2
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII
“Where have they gone, the brilliant, the insightful ones, the proud?”
Hays translation
VIII, 25
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII
“For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us.”
Hays translation
III, 4
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book III
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Hays translation
II, 11
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book II
Hays translation
V, 37
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book V
