Meditations · Book XII
Meditations, XII, 13
Chapter 13 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
It is absurd, and the mark of a stranger, to be surprised by anything that happens in life.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, XII, 13
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
On the widgets
It is absurd, and the mark of a stranger, to be surprised by anything that happens in life.
— MEDITATIONS XII, 13
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
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 6938
In French
Comme il est ridicule et naïf de s’étonner de quoi que ce soit qui arrive dans la vie !
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-12.txt, l. 56
C’est être bien ridicule, ou étrangement inexpérimenté, que de s’étonner de quoi que ce soit dans la vie !
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-12.txt, l. 57
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, 13
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS XII, 13
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- XII·13
This passage and the 165 other Marcus Aurelius passages are free in Stoïque, with their reference, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.