Meditations · Book X
Meditations, X, 5
Chapter 5 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
Whatever happens to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and from all eternity the weaving of causes was spinning the thread of your being and of what befalls it.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 5
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
On the widgets
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being, and of that which is incident to it (iii. 11; iv. 26).
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 5912
In French
Quelque chose qui t’arrive, elle t’avait été préparée à l’avance de toute éternité ; l’enchaînement des causes comprenait de tout temps [dans la même trame] ce que tu devais être et cette chose qui devait t’arriver.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-10.txt, l. 19
Quelque chose qui puisse t’arriver en ce monde, cette chose avait été prédisposée pour toi de toute éternité ; et dès l’éternité, l’enchaînement réciproque des causes avait décrété, tout à la fois dans la trame de l’univers, et ta propre existence, et la chose qui t’arrive.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-10.txt, l. 24
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, 5
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS X, 5
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- X·5
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