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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · temperance and self-mastery · temperance and modesty · readiness for sudden events · perception and the senses · love of mankind · justice · friendship and loyalty · examining impressions · avoid empty fame · ambition and the love of glory
Usually: exhortation (2) · argument (1) · reflection (1) · censure (1) · detachment (1)
Marcus Aurelius instructs the reader to live according to reason and the social nature of humans, to examine impressions carefully, to love mankind, and to meet events like a wrestler ready for sudden attacks.
With food and drinks and cunning magic arts Turning the channel’s course to ’scape from death. The breeze which heaven has sent We must endure, and toil without complaining. 52. Another may be more expert in casting his opponent; but he is not more social, nor more modest, nor better disciplined to meet all that happens, nor more considerate with respect to the faults of his neighbors. 53. Where any work can be clo…
Marcus Aurelius advises giving up anxiety about appearing a philosopher, living according to nature’s demands, judging each action’s moral worth, and focusing on justice, modesty, and social duty rather than reputation.
nature demands, do that without turning aside; and speak as it seems to thee most just, only let it be with a good disposition and with modesty and without hypocrisy. 6. The nature of the universal has this work to do,--to remove to that place the things which are in this, to change them, to take, them away hence, and to carry them there. All things are change, yet we need not fear anything new. All things are famil…