Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
Meditations, Book X
23 passages of this book in Stoïque, each with its reference.
Book X opens with a question to the soul, ‘Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked’ (X, 1), and keeps that register. Chapter 8 lists the names a man should assume and never change, good, modest, true, rational, a man of equanimity, magnanimous. Chapter 10 sets the spider proud of its fly beside the hunter of Sarmatians. ‘Live as on a mountain’ (X, 15); ‘No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such’ (Meditations, X, 16).
Chapter 23 cites Plato on dwelling within the walls of a city as in a shepherd’s fold on a mountain, and chapter 31 pairs each man now living with someone of the past, Satyron with Eutyches, Euphrates with Eutychion, Xenophon with Crito. The longest chapters come at the end: what can be said or done most conformably to reason with the material given (X, 33), the lines about leaves that the wind scatters on the ground (X, 34), the healthy eye that does not ask for green things (X, 35), and the dying man beside whom someone is always relieved (X, 36). The last chapter names that which pulls the strings, hidden within (X, 38).
Passages of this book in the app
If someone is mistaken, teach him kindly and show him his error. If you cannot, blame yourself, or not even yourself.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 4
after Long, 1862
Whatever happens to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and from all eternity the weaving of causes was spinning the thread of your being and of what befalls it.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 5
after Long, 1862
Whoever follows reason in all things is at once calm and active, cheerful and collected.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 12
after Long, 1862
To nature, who gives all and takes all back, the disciplined and modest man says: give what you will, take back what you will. He says it not with pride, but obediently and well pleased with her.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 14
after Long, 1862
Stop talking altogether about what a good man should be; be one.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 16
after Long, 1862
Either you go on living here and are already used to it, or you are leaving, and that was your own will; or you are dying, and your duty is discharged. Beyond these there is nothing. Take heart, then.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 22
after Long, 1862
With each thing you do, pause and ask yourself whether death is dreadful because it takes this from you.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 29
after Long, 1862
When another's fault offends you, turn at once to yourself and consider how you err in the same way: thinking money a good, or pleasure, or a scrap of reputation. Attend to this and your anger soon passes, if you add that the man is compelled — what else could he do?
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, X, 30
after Long, 1862
The book in numbers
- Chapters in Long’s 1862 edition
- 38
- Passages of this book in the app
- 23
- Passages of Marcus Aurelius in the app
- 166
- Editions cited on this page
- George Long, 1862
Chapters of this book in the app
Each reference names the book and the chapter, the same way the app prints it under the passage.
- Meditations, X, 4
- Meditations, X, 5
- Meditations, X, 12
- Meditations, X, 14
- Meditations, X, 16
- Meditations, X, 22
- Meditations, X, 29
- Meditations, X, 30
- Meditations, X, 37
- Meditations, X, 11
- Meditations, X, 15
- Meditations, X, 17
- Meditations, X, 18
- Meditations, X, 20
- Meditations, X, 24
- Meditations, X, 27
- Meditations, X, 28
- Meditations, X, 31
- Meditations, X, 32
- Meditations, X, 33
- Meditations, X, 34
- Meditations, X, 36
- Meditations, X, 38
Quotes checked against this book
The 23 passages of Book X and the 143 other passages by Marcus Aurelius are free in Stoïque, each with its reference, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.