Meditations · Book VII
Meditations, VII, 15
Chapter 15 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
Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good — as if gold, or emerald, or purple kept saying: whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VII, 15
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the gold, or the emerald, or the purple, were always saying this. Whatever any one does or says, I must be emerald and keep my color.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 4428
In French
Quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’on dise, il faut que je sois homme de bien ; ainsi, l’or, ou l’émeraude, ou la pourpre pourrait répéter : quoi qu’on fasse, quoi qu’on dise, il faut que je sois émeraude et que je garde ma couleur.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-07.txt, l. 60
Quoi qu’on me dise, quoi qu’on me fasse, c’est mon devoir d’être toujours homme de bien. C’est ainsi que l’or, l’émeraude, la pourpre pourraient toujours se dire : « Quoi qu’on dise, quoi qu’on fasse, il y a nécessité que je sois émeraude, et que je conserve la couleur que j’ai. »
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-07.txt, l. 59
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VII, 15
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS VII, 15
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- VII·15
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