“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Źródło: Meditations
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
Źródło: Meditations
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
Wariant: How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Źródło: Meditations
“You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.”
Ὅτι οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσουσι, κἂν σὺ διαρραγῇς.
VIII, 4
Źródło: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Variant translation: If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.
VI, 21
Źródło: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
V.20
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
Kontekst: In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us--like sun, wind, and animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. (Hays translation)
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
Źródło: Meditations
“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
Źródło: Meditations