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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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BOOK VI<br />

NOYC AieKo'cMHce TT&NT&. ANAXAGORAS<br />

THE substance <strong>of</strong> the universe is tractable and 1<br />

plastic : and<br />

in the disposing<br />

reason there inheres<br />

no cause that makes for evil, for it contains no evil,<br />

does no evil, and inflicts no injury on anything. By<br />

it all things come in<strong>to</strong> being and run their course.<br />

Do your duty whether shivering or warm, 2<br />

never mind ; heavy-eyed, or with your fill <strong>of</strong> sleep ;<br />

in evil report or in good report ; dying or with<br />

other work in hand. Dying<br />

after all is but one<br />

among life's acts ; there <strong>to</strong>o our business is<br />

make the best <strong>of</strong> it.'<br />

Look within ; do not let the specific quality or 3<br />

worth <strong>of</strong> anything escape you.<br />

All material things soon change by evapora- 4<br />

tion, where there is unity <strong>of</strong> being ; otherwise, by<br />

dispersion.<br />

'<br />

<strong>to</strong><br />

y'

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