Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) & Gregory Hays

Author:Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) & Gregory Hays [Aurelius, Marcus & Hays, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History & Surveys, Life, Stoics, Philosophy, General, Ancient & Classical, Ethics, Religious, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780679642602
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002-05-14T10:00:00+00:00

i. Not to let others hold you back.

ii. To locate goodness in thinking and doing the right thing, and to limit your desires to that.

35. If:

• this evil is not of my doing,

• nor the result of it,

• and the community is not endangered, why should it bother me?

Where's the danger for the community?

36. Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should. And if < . . . > suffer in inessentials, not to treat that as a defeat. (Bad habit.)

Like the old man asking for the orphan’s toy on the way out—even though he knew that’s all it was. Like that.

36a. † Up on the platform. †

Have you forgotten what’s what?

—I know, but it was important to them.

And so you have to be an idiot as well?

37. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.

But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

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