Meditations

self-and-identity

• A man cannot any whither retire better than to his own soul; he especially who is beforehand provided of such things within.

  MEDIT-RC-038

• That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural temper, it will easily turn and apply itself to that which may be within its own power.

  MEDIT-RC-037

mortality

• First Celer, Adrianus; then Adrianus himself. Those proud and stately ones—where are they now? They were all but for one day; all dead and gone long since.

  MEDIT-RC-097

• As for the body itself, the subject of death: turn it about that thou mayest behold it the worst sides upwards as well as in its more ordinary pleasant shape.

  MEDIT-RC-096

work-as-meaning

• It is well known that thou hast done many things contrary to that perfection of life. Henceforth it will be hard to recover the title and credit of a philosopher.

  MEDIT-RC-092

• Thou mayest always speed if thou wilt but make choice of the right way; their happiness doth consist in a disposition to and in the practice of righteousness.

  MEDIT-RC-062