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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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BOOK VII<br />

AC\(MCON. HERACLITUS<br />

HGoc TTH[-H BIOY- ZENO<br />

WHAT is evil ? It is what you have seen again i<br />

and again ; and in every case that occurs, remind<br />

yourself that it is what you have seen again and<br />

again. Up and down, everywhere you<br />

will find<br />

the same things, repeating themselves at every<br />

page <strong>of</strong> his<strong>to</strong>ry, ancient mediaeval or quite recent ;<br />

repeating themselves every day<br />

and homes. Nothing is new ;<br />

is fleeting.<br />

in our own cities<br />

all is stale and all<br />

Look <strong>to</strong> first principles ; and how can they be 2<br />

deadened, but by the extinction <strong>of</strong> the impressions<br />

<strong>to</strong> which they correspond ? and these you may<br />

continually kindle in<strong>to</strong> glow.<br />

On any given thing,<br />

I have the power <strong>to</strong> take the right view ; if so,<br />

why vex myself? Things outside my own under-

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