Meditations · Book V
Meditations, V, 19
Chapter 19 of Book V 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
Things themselves touch not the soul, not in the least degree; nor have they admission to the soul, nor can they turn or move the soul: but the soul turns and moves itself alone, and whatever judgments it may think proper to make, such it makes for itself the things which present themselves to it.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, V, 19
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Things themselves touch not the soul, not in the least degree; nor have they admission to the soul, nor can they turn or move the soul: but the soul turns and moves itself alone, and whatever judgments it may think proper to make, such it makes for itself the things which present themselves to it.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 3698
In French
Les choses elles-mêmes n’atteignent pas le moins du monde l’âme ; elles n’ont pas d’accès jusqu’à elle ; elles ne peuvent ni la changer ni l’émouvoir ; seule elle se modifie et s’émeut elle-même ; c’est elle qui confère aux accidents extérieurs un caractère en conformité avec le jugement qu’elle porte sur elle-même.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-05.txt, l. 75
Il est bien entendu que les choses elles-mêmes n’ont pas le moindre contact avec notre âme. Elles n’y ont pas d’accès possible ; elles ne peuvent ni la changer ni la mouvoir. L’âme seule a la puissance de se modifier elle-même et de se donner le mouvement ; et c’est d’après les jugements qu’elle croit devoir porter qu’elle façonne à son usage les choses du dehors.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-05.txt, l. 94
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, V, 19
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS V, 19
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- V·19
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