The Meditations of Marcus AureliusRoutledge, 1887 - 212 ページ |
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24 Warwick Lane A. C. Swinburne accidents action advantage Alfred Austin angry Antoninus bear body BOOK breath cause common compass consider death Deity desire disturbed divinity earth elements Emperor Epictetus Ernest Rhys everything evil faculty fame fancy Farther fate fault fortune give gods governs happens happiness harm Heather on Fire Heraclitus hinder human hurt inclination indifferent Joseph Skipsey Julius Cæsar justice keep kind likewise live look Lucius Verus man's mankind Marcus Aurelius MATHILDE BLIND matter mind misfortune mortals never notion observe opinion passion Paternoster Row person philosophy Plato pray principle Providence quickly rational reason remember Roden Noel satisfied serviceable Socrates sort soul speak stand Stoicism Stoics temper Theodore Watts things thought trouble true truth universal nature Verus virtue W. K. CLIFFORD WALTER SCOTT whole WILLIAM SHARP word
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174 ページ - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
xxiv ページ - Why else was the pause prolonged but that singing might issue thence? Why rushed the discords in but that harmony should be prized?
vii ページ - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
113 ページ - Some one will say: And are you not ashamed, Socrates, of a course of life which is likely to bring you to an untimely end? To him I may fairly answer : There you are mistaken : a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong — acting the part of a good man or of a bad.
210 ページ - I made up my mind that I would run the risk, having law and justice with me, rather than take part in your injustice because I feared imprisonment and death. This happened in the days of the democracy. But when the oligarchy of the Thirty was in power, they sent for me and four others into the rotunda, and bade us bring Leon the Salaminian from Salamis, as they wanted to put him to death.
168 ページ - ... not forgotten what they do, and what they avoid and what they pursue, and how they steal and how they rob, not with hands and feet, but with their most valuable part, by means of which there is produced, when a man chooses, fidelity, modesty, truth, law, a good daemon [happiness]?
210 ページ - This was a specimen of the sort of commands which they were always giving with the view of implicating as many as possible in their crimes; and then I showed, not in word only but in deed, that, if I may be allowed to use such an expression, I cared not a straw for death, and that my great and only care was lest I should do an unrighteous or unholy thing.
211 ページ - Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor yet great storm, nor any rain; but always ocean sendeth forth the breeze of the shrill West to blow cool on men: yea, for thou hast Helen to wife, and thereby they deem thee to be son of Zeus.
75 ページ - Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on ; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the colour and complexion of thought!
116 ページ - Why then dost thou too choose to act in the same way? And why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of the things which happen to thee? For then thou wilt use them well, and they will be a material for thee to work on. Only attend to thyself, and resolve to be a good man in every act which thou doest: and remember . . . 59.