Meditations · Book IV
Meditations, IV, 18
Chapter 18 of Book IV 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 trouble a man spares himself by not watching what his neighbour says or does or thinks, and watching only his own conduct, that it be just and pure.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 18
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure; or, as Agathon+ says, look not round at the depraved morals of others, but run straight along the line without deviating from it.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 3141
In French
Que de temps gagne celui qui ne regarde pas ce que son voisin a dit, fait ou pensé, mais seulement ce qu’il fait lui-même, pour que son action soit juste et pure ! Oui certes, voilà ce qui est bien : au lieu de chercher à voir autour de soi dans l’âme du prochain, courir en suivant la ligne droite, sans dévier.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-04.txt, l. 76
Que de temps on pourrait se ménager en ne regardant point à ce qu’a dit le voisin, à ce qu’il a fait, à ce qu’il a pensé, et en ne songeant qu’à ce qu’on fait soi-même, afin de rendre toutes ses actions justes et saintes ! Oui, à l’exemple de l’homme de bien, il faut ne point plonger ses regards dans les mœurs ténébreuses, mais marcher tout droit sur la ligne, sans le moindre écart.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-04.txt, l. 73
How to cite
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- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 18
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS IV, 18
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- IV·18
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