Meditations · Book X
Meditations, X, 17
Chapter 17 of Book X of the Meditations. First the passage as Stoïque shows it, after Long, 1862; then the whole chapter, word for word, in that edition, and the same chapter in French.
The passage in the app
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 17
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 6122
In French
Figure-toi sans cesse la durée totale et la matière totale ; chaque partie n’est, par rapport à la matière, qu’un grain de figue et, par rapport au temps, qu’un tour de vrille.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-10.txt, l. 67
Essaie sans cesse de te représenter l’image de la totale durée, de la totale substance ; et dis-toi bien que tous les êtres particuliers valent, comparés à la substance, un grain de millet, et, comparés au temps éternel, un tour de vrille.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-10.txt, l. 82
How to cite
The canonical reference names the book and the chapter, so the passage can be found in any edition. The app composes it in three forms:
- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 17
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS X, 17
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- X·17
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