Meditations · Book XII
Meditations, XII, 11
Chapter 11 of Book XII 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
What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, XII, 11
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
On the widgets
Not every widget family holds a passage this long. The app never cuts one: where it does not fit, a shorter passage takes its place, with its reference. The circular widget carries the locator alone.
The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 6929
In French
Quel pouvoir que celui de l’homme ! Il est libre de ne faire que ce que Dieu doit approuver et d’accepter tout ce que Dieu lui envoie.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-12.txt, l. 48
Quelle admirable puissance l’homme n’a-t-il pas, puisqu’il lui est donné de ne faire que ce que Dieu doit approuver, et d’accepter toujours le destin que Dieu lui fait !
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-12.txt, l. 49
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, XII, 11
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS XII, 11
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- XII·11
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