Meditations · Book VIII
Meditations, VIII, 42
Chapter 42 of Book VIII 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
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VIII, 42
After Long, 1862 — modernized.
On the widgets
Not every widget family holds a passage this long. The app never cuts one: where it does not fit, a shorter passage takes its place, with its reference. The circular widget carries the locator alone.
The whole chapter in Long’s 1862 edition
It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.
Source: Project Gutenberg · corpus/sources/marcus-aurelius-meditations-long-1862.txt, l. 5255
In French
Je ne mérite pas de me faire de la peine à moi-même, car jamais je n’en ai fait volontairement à autrui.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-couat-1904/livre-08.txt, l. 173
Je ne suis pas capable de me faire du chagrin à moi-même, moi qui n’en ai jamais fait volontairement à personne.
Source: Wikisource · corpus/sources/fr/marcus-aurelius-pensees-barthelemy-1876/livre-08.txt, l. 169
How to cite
The canonical reference names the book and the chapter, so the passage can be found in any edition. The app composes it in three forms:
- Full form — full screen and large widgets
- — MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, VIII, 42
- Short form — small widget and Lock Screen
- — MEDITATIONS VIII, 42
- Minimal form — circular Lock Screen widget
- VIII·42
This passage and the 165 other Marcus Aurelius passages are free in Stoïque, with their reference, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.