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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations (Inti Classics): by Marcus Aurelius
Le philosophe anglais Anthony Ashley Cooper, comte de Shaftesbury, est souvent présenté comme « le champion moderne du stoïcisme 1 ». Il se reconnaît lui-même comme un disciple de Marc Aurèle ; Pierre Hadot n’a d’ailleurs pas manqué de souligner cette filiation 2
Xavier Pavie • Exercices Spirituels. Leçons de la philosophie antique (French Edition)
Important, and visible, as some of these developments were, the basic structures of imperial power, as the first Augustus had formulated them, remained in place throughout the rule of these fourteen emperors, no matter who was on the throne: Tiberius near the beginning of the first century CE would not have found it difficult to slip into the imper
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Before broaching the main theme of his title, Gibbon briefly reflects on the earlier period of one-man rule between Tiberius and Commodus, and he singles out for praise the emperors in the second century CE. His memorable aphorism, crafted with typical eighteenth-century self-confidence, is still much quoted: ‘If a man were called to fix the period
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Marcus Aurelius who said, ‘When you are stressed by an external thing, it’s not the thing itself that troubles you, but only your judgement of it. And you can wipe this out at a moment’s notice.’
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
- accepts nothing false or uncertain; 2) directs its impulses only to acts for the common good; 3) limits its desires and aversions only to what’s in its own power; 4) embraces everything nature assigns it.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.7
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome
