Meditations
- Sylashas quoted3 years ago
To see them from above: the thousands of animal herds, the rituals, the voyages on calm or stormy seas, the different ways we come into the world, share it with one another, and leave it. Consider the lives led once by others, long ago, the lives to be led by others after you, the lives led even now, in foreign lands. How many people don’t even know your name. How many will soon have forgotten it. How many offer you praise now—and tomorrow, perhaps, contempt.
That to be remembered is worthless. Like fame. Like everything. - b3918604435has quoted18 days ago
3. MY MOTHER
Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich.Marcus's mother, Domitia Lucilla Minor (also known as Domitia Calvilla), was the daughter of the Roman patrician P. Calvisius Tullus and inherited a great fortune (described at length in one of Pliny's letters) from her parents and grandparents. Her inheritance included large brickworks on the outskirts of Rome – a profitable enterprise in an era when the city was experiencing a construction boom – and the Horti Domitia Calvillae (or Lucillae), a villa on the Caelian hill of Rome. (Basically čikse ir bagāta bet humble queen)
- b3918604435has quoted18 days ago2. MY FATHER (FROM MY OWN MEMORIES AND HIS REPUTATIONf)
Integrity and manliness.Politiķis bet nomira kad Markam bija 3 gadi
- b3918604435has quoted18 days ago1. MY GRANDFATHER VERUS
Character and self-control.Bioloģiskais vectēvs( patrician in 73–74.)
- b3918604435has quotedlast monthMarcus would have read Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and the tragedies of Euripides side by side with the Aeneid, and studied the speeches of the great Athenian orator Demosthenes as intensively as those of the Roman statesman Cicero.
- b3918604435has quotedlast monthther who brought him up, for his father died when he was very young.
- b3918604435has quotedlast monthMarcus sprang from a distinguished enough family.
- Iana Martinezhas quoted5 months ago
The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose. - Iana Martinezhas quoted5 months agoWhatever the nature of the whole does, and whatever serves to maintain it, is good for every part of nature. The world is maintained by change—in the elements and in the things they compose.
- Iana Martinezhas quoted5 months ago, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.
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