Meditations · Book VI
Meditations, VI, 21
Chapter 21 of Book VI 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
If anyone can convince me and show me that I am not thinking or acting rightly, I will gladly change. I look for the truth, which never injured a soul; the one injured is the one who stays in his error and ignorance.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 4039
In French
Si l’on peut me démontrer que mes jugements et mes actes sont mauvais, et m’en convaincre, je changerai volontiers. Je cherche la vérité, et la vérité n’a jamais fait de mal à personne. Ce qui fait du mal, c’est de persister dans son erreur et dans son ignorance.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-06.txt, l. 83
Si quelqu’un veut bien me convaincre et s’il m’arrête en me prouvant que ma pensée n’est pas juste, ou que mon action n’est pas bonne, je suis à la joie de mon cœur de me redresser ; car je ne cherche que la vérité, qui n’a jamais nui à personne, tandis qu’on se fait le plus grand tort en persévérant dans son erreur et dans son ignorance.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-06.txt, l. 96
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS VI, 21
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- VI·21
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