Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers
90 MARCUS ANTONINUS BOOK 10 Every material thing fast vanishes into the sum of being ; and every cause is quickly re-assumed into the universal reason ; and the memory of everything is quickly buried beneath eternity. 11 To the reasoning being the act which is according to nature is likewise according to reason. 12 Upright or uprighted. 13 As in physical organisms the unity is made up of separate limbs, so among reasoning things the reason is distributed among individuals, constituted for unity of co-operation. This thought will strike more home, if you constantly repeat to yourself ' I am a member of the sum of reasoning things/ If you substitute meros for melos part for member you do not yet love men from your heart ; you have yet no certitude of joy in doing kindnesses ; they are still bare duty, not yet a good deed to yourself. 14 Affect what will the parts of my being liable to affection from without ! the parts affected can if they please find fault. So long as I do not view the infliction as an evil, I remain uninjured. And I need not so view it. 15 Whatever any one else does or says, my duty
vii TO HIMSELF 91 is to be good ; just as gold or emerald or purple for ever says, Whatever any one else does or says, my duty is to be emerald and keep my proper hue. The Inner Self does not agitate itself does 16 not, for instance, terrify itself or excite its own desires. If some one else can terrify or vex it, let him. It will never itself induce such moods by self-assumption. The body must take thought for its own hurts, as best it can, and if hurt say so ; the soul, to which belong terror, vexation or any assumption of the kind, refuses hurt ; you cannot wrest it to any such judgment. The Inner Self is self-complete, subject to none but self-created needs, and free accordingly from every perturbation or contravention, except action. such as arise from its own Happiness literally, god within, or 1 good. What are you about here, Impression, you deceiver ? Be off, sir as you came : I will none of you. * You have come as an old friend/ you say ? Well, peace be with you : only, begone ! Does change terrify you ? Yet what can come 18 1 A play on the derivation of the Greek word Eudaimonia, and untranslatable. 17
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90 MARCUS ANTONINUS BOOK<br />
10 Every material thing<br />
fast vanishes in<strong>to</strong> the sum<br />
<strong>of</strong> being ; and every cause is quickly re-assumed<br />
in<strong>to</strong> the universal reason ; and the memory <strong>of</strong><br />
everything is quickly buried beneath eternity.<br />
11 To the reasoning being the act which is<br />
according <strong>to</strong> nature is likewise according <strong>to</strong><br />
reason.<br />
12 Upright or uprighted.<br />
13 As in physical organisms the unity is made up<br />
<strong>of</strong> separate limbs, so among reasoning things the<br />
reason is distributed among individuals, constituted<br />
for unity <strong>of</strong> co-operation.<br />
This thought will strike<br />
more home, if you constantly repeat <strong>to</strong> yourself<br />
'<br />
I am a member <strong>of</strong> the sum <strong>of</strong> reasoning things/<br />
If you substitute meros for melos part for<br />
member you do not yet love men from your<br />
heart ; you have yet no certitude <strong>of</strong> joy in doing<br />
kindnesses ; they are still bare duty, not yet a<br />
good deed <strong>to</strong> yourself.<br />
14 Affect what will the parts <strong>of</strong> my being liable<br />
<strong>to</strong> affection from without ! the parts affected can<br />
if they please find fault. So long as I do not<br />
view the infliction as an evil, I remain uninjured.<br />
And I need not so view it.<br />
15 Whatever any one else does or says, my duty
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