Meditations · Book II
Meditations, II, 9
Chapter 9 of Book II 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
There is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, II, 9
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
This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole, and that there is no one who hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which are according to the nature of which thou art a part.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 2575
In French
Se rappeler toujours ceci : quelle est la nature de l’univers et quelle est la mienne ? qu’est celle-ci par rapport à la première ? quelle partie de quel tout est-elle ? Et ceci : nul ne peut t’empêcher d’agir toujours et de parler conformément à la nature dont tu es une partie.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-02.txt, l. 94
Que ta mémoire se rappelle sans cesse les questions que voici : « Quelle est la nature de l’ensemble des choses ? Quelle est ma propre nature ? Quelle relation ma nature soutient-elle avec l’autre ? Quelle partie forme-t-elle dans le tout ? Quel est ce tout dont elle fait partie ? » Et ajoute qu’il n’est personne au monde qui puisse t’empêcher jamais de faire et de dire ce qui découle comme conséquence nécessaire de la nature dont tu fais partie.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-02.txt, l. 35
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, II, 9
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS II, 9
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
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