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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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86 MARCUS ANTONINUS BOOK vi<br />

53 Practise attention <strong>to</strong> what others say, and do<br />

your best <strong>to</strong> get in<strong>to</strong> the speaker's mind.<br />

54 What is not good for the swarm is not good<br />

for the bee.<br />

55 If the sailors abused the pilot, or the sick the<br />

physician, would they have any other object, than<br />

<strong>to</strong> make him save the crew or heal the patients ?<br />

56 How many with whom I came in<strong>to</strong> the world<br />

have already quitted it !<br />

57 To the jaundiced honey seems bitter ; <strong>to</strong> the<br />

hydrophobe water is horrible ;<br />

<strong>to</strong> children a ball<br />

is a thing <strong>of</strong> beauty. Then why lose my temper ?<br />

Think you false opinion takes less effect, than bile<br />

in the jaundiced or the virus in hydrophobia ?<br />

58 No one can s<strong>to</strong>p you from living according <strong>to</strong><br />

the principle <strong>of</strong> your own nature : nothing will<br />

happen <strong>to</strong> you contrary <strong>to</strong> the principle<br />

universal nature.<br />

59 Think what men are ! whom<br />

satisfy and<br />

! for what results !<br />

How soon time will bury all ! how<br />

buried already !<br />

<strong>of</strong> the<br />

they care <strong>to</strong><br />

by<br />

what actions !<br />

much it has

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