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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
5.0
Translation - Martin Hammond. Penguin classics
Hugely impressed with the book, the great mind of the author is imbued with great minds of predecessors, brilliant teachers.
He shows a view of living very clearly. What a person should do in life and what to think about.
"Thus too a man walks with god’s support when his choice and his direction carry him along god’s own path.
Three thoughts to keep at hand. First: in your own actions, nothing aimless or other than Justice herself would have done; in external happenings either chance or providence is at work, and one should not blame chance or indict providence. Second: the nature of each of us from conception to the first breath of soul, and from that first breath to the surrender of our soul; what elements form our constitution and will be the result of our dissolution. Third: that if you were suddenly lifted up to a great height and could look down on human activity and see all its variety, you would despise it, because your view would take in also the great surrounding host of spirits who populate the air and the sky; and that, however many times you were lifted up, you would see the same things – monotony and transience. Such are the objects of our conceit."
Hugely impressed with the book, the great mind of the author is imbued with great minds of predecessors, brilliant teachers.
He shows a view of living very clearly. What a person should do in life and what to think about.
"Thus too a man walks with god’s support when his choice and his direction carry him along god’s own path.
Three thoughts to keep at hand. First: in your own actions, nothing aimless or other than Justice herself would have done; in external happenings either chance or providence is at work, and one should not blame chance or indict providence. Second: the nature of each of us from conception to the first breath of soul, and from that first breath to the surrender of our soul; what elements form our constitution and will be the result of our dissolution. Third: that if you were suddenly lifted up to a great height and could look down on human activity and see all its variety, you would despise it, because your view would take in also the great surrounding host of spirits who populate the air and the sky; and that, however many times you were lifted up, you would see the same things – monotony and transience. Such are the objects of our conceit."