Book Seven
7:58
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: What is badness? It is that which you have often seen.
58. In everything which happens keep before your eyes those to whom the same things happened, and how they were vexed, and treated them as strange things, and found fault with them: and now where are they?
Nowhere.
Why then do you too choose to act in the same way?
And why do you not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them?
And why are you not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of the things which happen to you?
For then you will use them well, and they will be a material for you to work on.
Only attend to yourself and resolve to be a good man in every act which you doest: and remember...
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Seven
Chapter Subtitle: What is badness? It is that which you have often seen.
Location: Chapter 7, Section 58
Content:
58. In everything which happens keep before your eyes those to whom the same things happened, and how they were vexed, and treated them as strange things, and found fault with them: and now where are they?
Nowhere.
Why then do you too choose to act in the same way?
And why do you not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them?
And why are you not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of the things which happen to you?
For then you will use them well, and they will be a material for you to work on.
Only attend to yourself and resolve to be a good man in every act which you doest: and remember...