Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius AntoninusH.M. Caldwell Company, 1900 - 180 หน้า |
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able according to nature acting justly agreeable animal Antoninus Pius art thou assigned to thee benevolent body Cæsar Commodus conformable consider dæmon death desire disposition divine doest dost thou endure Euphrates everything which happens evil fame find fault formed by nature freedom freedom of speech gisms give gods Hadrian happens to thee hinders thee judgment justice kind longer look Lucilla man's nature manner Marcus Aurelius Antoninus modesty nature to bear ninus pain Parthian war passion philosophy pleasure poor flesh presented to thee principles Quadi quiet at last rational rational animals ready reason remember Rome Rusticus satisfied social act Socrates spect Suidas thou art formed thou canst thou didst thou dost thou hast seen thou seest thou shalt thou wilt thou wouldst thy duty thy mind thy opinion thy power thy present thy soul thy thoughts thyself tion tranquillity truth universe vexed wrong Zeus
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หน้า 32 - I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind ; but, through their favor, there never was such a concurrence of circumstances as put me to the trial. Further, I am thankful to the gods that I was not...
หน้า 38 - For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.
หน้า 79 - 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?
หน้า 76 - One man after burying another has been laid out dead, and another buries him: and all this in a short time. To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus to-morrow will be a mummy or ashes.
หน้า 23 - I learned from him also consistency and undeviating steadiness in my regard for philosophy; and a disposition to do good, and to give to others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and to believe that I am loved by my friends; and in him I observed no concealment of his opinions...
หน้า 150 - ... and wilt enter on another life. For to continue to be such as thou hast hitherto been, and to be torn in pieces and defiled in such a life, is the character of a very stupid man, and one over-fond of his life, and like those half-devoured fighters with wild beasts, who, though covered with wounds and gore, still...
หน้า 61 - If thou workest at that which is before thee, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without allowing anything else to distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately; if thou...
หน้า 77 - Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. Unhappy am I because this has happened to me? Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.
หน้า 42 - But in truth they do exist, and they do care for human things, and they have put all the means in man's power to enable him not to fall into real evils. And as to the rest, if there was anything evil, they would have provided for this also, that it should be altogether in a man's power not to fall into it.
หน้า 84 - ... done. A third in a manner does not even know what he has done, but he is like a vine which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has...