Book Eleven
11:2
Book Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Book Description: The personal notes of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
This book has influenced many throughout history from students to statesmen. It's an inside look at a brilliant and thoughtful man working on living well.
The emperor and philosopher's thoughts are crucial to understand for any Stoic seeking to do their best in a complex world.
Chapter Subtitle: These are the properties of the rational soul: it sees itself, analyses itself, and makes itself such as it chooses; the fruit which it bears itself enjoys- for the fruits of plants and that in animals which corresponds to fruits others enjoy- it obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed.
2. You will set little value on pleasing song and dancing and the pancratium, if you will distribute the melody of the voice into its several sounds, and ask yourself as to each, if you are mastered by this; for you will be prevented by shame from confessing it: and in the matter of dancing, if at each movement and attitude you will do the same; and the like also in the matter of the pancratium.
In all things, then, except virtue and the acts of virtue, remember to apply yourself to their several parts, and by this division to come to value them little: and apply this rule also to your whole life.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Eleven
Chapter Subtitle: These are the properties of the rational soul: it sees itself, analyses itself, and makes itself such as it chooses; the fruit which it bears itself enjoys- for the fruits of plants and that in animals which corresponds to fruits others enjoy- it obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed.
Location: Chapter 11, Section 2
Content:
2. You will set little value on pleasing song and dancing and the pancratium, if you will distribute the melody of the voice into its several sounds, and ask yourself as to each, if you are mastered by this; for you will be prevented by shame from confessing it: and in the matter of dancing, if at each movement and attitude you will do the same; and the like also in the matter of the pancratium.
In all things, then, except virtue and the acts of virtue, remember to apply yourself to their several parts, and by this division to come to value them little: and apply this rule also to your whole life.