Meditations · Book XII
Meditations, XII, 25
Chapter 25 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
Cast away opinion and you are saved. Who is stopping you from casting it away?
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, XII, 25
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
On the widgets
Cast away opinion and you are saved. Who is stopping you from casting it away?
— MEDITATIONS XII, 25
Cast away opinion and you are saved. Who is stopping you from casting it away?
— MEDITATIONS XII, 25
As on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen: the passage, then its reference, glued to the bottom. The reference never leaves the composition, even in the smallest family.
The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Cast away opinion: thou art saved. Who then hinders thee from casting it away?
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 7035
In French
Éloigne de toi ton jugement et tu es sauvé. Or, qui peut t’empêcher de l’éloigner ?
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-12.txt, l. 108
Mets de côté l’idée que tu te fais des choses, et te voilà sauvé. Et qui peut t’empêcher encore de la mettre de côté ?
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-12.txt, l. 111
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, 25
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS XII, 25
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- XII·25
This passage and the 165 other Marcus Aurelius passages are free in Stoïque, with their reference, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.