Book Six
6:40
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: The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it.
40. Every instrument, tool, vessel, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there.
But in the things which are held together by nature there is within and there abides in them the power which made them; wherefore the more is it fit to reverence this power, and to think, that, if you do live and act according to its will, everything in you is in conformity to intelligence.
And thus also in the universe the things which belong to it are in conformity to intelligence.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Six
Chapter Subtitle: The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it.
Location: Chapter 6, Section 40
Content:
40. Every instrument, tool, vessel, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there.
But in the things which are held together by nature there is within and there abides in them the power which made them; wherefore the more is it fit to reverence this power, and to think, that, if you do live and act according to its will, everything in you is in conformity to intelligence.
And thus also in the universe the things which belong to it are in conformity to intelligence.