Meditations · Book IV
Meditations, IV, 44
Chapter 44 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
Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer; for such is disease, and death, and calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 44
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer; for such is disease, and death, and calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 3343
In French
Tout ce qui arrive est aussi ordinaire et aussi connu que la rose au printemps et les fruits en été : par exemple, la maladie, la mort, la calomnie, la fourbe, et tout ce qui réjouit ou attriste les esprits faibles.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-04.txt, l. 182
Tout ce qui nous arrive est aussi ordinaire et aussi prévu que la rose au printemps, ou la moisson en été. Telles sont aussi pour nous la maladie, la mort, la calomnie qui nous déchire, l’inimitié qui nous tend des pièges, et tant d’autres événements, qui sont pour les ignorants des sujets de joie ou d’affliction.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-04.txt, l. 179
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 44
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS IV, 44
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- IV·44
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