Meditations · Book V
Meditations, V, 25
Chapter 25 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
Does another do me wrong? Let him look to it. He has his own disposition, his own activity. I now have what the universal nature now wills me to have; and I do what my nature now wills me to do.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, V, 25
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Does another do me wrong? Let him look to it. He has his own disposition, his own activity. I now have what the universal nature now wills me to have; and I do what my nature now wills me to do.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 3742
In French
Un autre se rend-il coupable envers moi ? C’est son affaire ; il a sa disposition propre, sa propre activité. Moi je suis maintenant ce que la nature universelle veut que maintenant je sois, je fais ce que ma nature veut que je fasse [maintenant].
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-05.txt, l. 99
Un autre commet une faute ; que m’importe à moi ? C’est à lui de voir ; il a son organisation propre, il a son activité individuelle. Quant à moi, j’ai à cette heure ce que la commune nature veut que j’aie à cette heure ; et je fais ce que ma nature veut que je fasse maintenant.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-05.txt, l. 118
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, V, 25
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS V, 25
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- V·25
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