Meditations · Book VII
Meditations, VII, 14
Chapter 14 of Book VII 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
Let there fall externally what will on the parts which can feel the effects of this fall. For those parts which have felt will complain, if they choose. But I, unless I think that what has happened is an evil, am not injured. And it is in my power not to think so.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VII, 14
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Let there fall externally what will on the parts which can feel the effects of this fall. For those parts which have felt will complain, if they choose. But I, unless I think that what has happened is an evil, am not injured. And it is in my power not to think so.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 4423
In French
Arrive ce qui voudra du dehors à ce qui peut en moi souffrir de ces attaques. Ces parties qui souffrent se plaindront si elles le veulent ; mais moi, si je ne juge pas que cet accident est un mal, je ne suis pas atteint. Or, je puis ne pas le juger.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-07.txt, l. 56
Que du dehors advienne tout ce qu’il voudra, dans ces portions de mon être qui peuvent ressentir ces sortes d’accidents ; ce qui en moi souffrira pourra se plaindre, s’il le trouve bon. Mais quant à moi, si je ne pense pas que ce qui m’arrive soit un mal, je n’en suis pas encore atteint ; or il m’est toujours possible de concevoir cette pensée.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-07.txt, l. 55
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VII, 14
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS VII, 14
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- VII·14
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