Meditations · Book IV
Meditations, IV, 5
Chapter 5 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
Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; and altogether not a thing of which any man should be ashamed, for it is not contrary to [the nature of] a reasonable animal, and not contrary to the reason of our constitution.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 5
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
Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; and altogether not a thing of which any man should be ashamed, for it is not contrary to the nature of a reasonable animal, and not contrary to the reason of our constitution.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 3082
In French
La mort est, comme la naissance, un mystère de la nature ; l’une se fait par la combinaison des mêmes éléments dont l’autre n’est que la décomposition. Il n’y a rien là dont personne ait à rougir ; cela n’est nullement contraire à la loi de l’être raisonnable et au plan de sa constitution.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-04.txt, l. 24
La mort, telle que nous la voyons, est, ainsi que la naissance, un mystère de la nature : ici, combinaison des mêmes éléments ; et là, dissolution d’éléments toujours les mêmes. Dans tout cela, il n’y a rien absolument qui puisse révolter un être doué d’intelligence, ni qui contredise le plan raisonné du système entier.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-04.txt, l. 21
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, IV, 5
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS IV, 5
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- IV·5
This passage and the 165 other Marcus Aurelius passages are free in Stoïque, with their reference, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.