Meditations · Book VII
Meditations, VII, 25
Chapter 25 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
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be ever new.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VII, 25
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
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The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be ever new (xii. 23).
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 4494
In French
La nature qui régit l’univers va bientôt changer toutes les choses que tu vois ; de leur matière elle en fera d’autres, et d’autres encore de la matière de celles-ci, afin que le monde soit toujours jeune.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-07.txt, l. 106
La nature qui ordonne et régit l’univers va dans un instant changer tout ce que tu vois ; de la substance de ces êtres, elle en formera d’autres, comme avec la substance de ceux-ci elle en formera d’autres encore, afin que l’univers soit éternellement jeune et nouveau.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-07.txt, l. 99
How to cite
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- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VII, 25
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS VII, 25
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- VII·25
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