The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Author:Marcus Aurelius
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780743233835
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2002-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

BOOK SIX * it thoroughly; how he put up with unjustified accusations without saying a word; how he never acted in haste or listened to slander; how he weighed carefully a man’s character and actions; how he was never spiteful, craven, suspicious, or pedantic; how simple were his tastes and spare his needs in lodging and bed and dress and food and service; and how he loved hard work and bore the inconveniences and irritations of life with inexhaustible patience, what a man he was! He could work in one place from morning till night without pausing for nourishment or rest and without relieving himself before the usual hour. He was a loyal and steadfast friend, who encouraged plainspoken disagreement with his opinions and delighted in being shown a better way. Finally, he was devout without being in the least superstitious. Remember all this so that in your final hour you too can depart this life with as clear a conscience his.’ Come around, put yourself together, wake up! Admit that what’s troubling you are dreams, the products of a lively imagination. Start to see things for what they are again. r am a mind and a body. To my body, all things are indifferent, since it has no power in itself to discern or influence them. To my mind, all things are likewise indifferent, except for those things of which the mind is conscious. Even among those few things, it is concerned only with the present, being at this moment indifferent to whatever it acted upon in the past or will act upon in the future. F A pain in the hand or in the foot is not contrary to nature soling as it is acquired while the foot is performing the function offset and the hand is doing the work of hands. By the same token, human suffering is not contrary to nature so long as it arises out of human toil and endeavor. And if it is not contrary to nature, how can suffering then be bad for us? ' What manifold pleasures titillate pirates, playboys, parricides, and potentates!

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