Marco Aurelio: Frasi in inglese

Marco Aurelio era imperatore romano. Frasi in inglese.
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“As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.”

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Marcus Aurelius libro Meditations

III, 13
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”

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Origine: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 4

“Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.”

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Variante: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. (trans. George Long)
Origine: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 20

“Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.”

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III, 9
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III

“All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.”

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Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.
IV, 35
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”

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X, 27
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X

“And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.”

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XI, 32
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI

“A horse at the end of the race…A dog when the hunt is over…A bee with its honey stored…And a human being after helping others. They don't make a fuss about it. They just go on to something else, as the vine looks forward to bearing fruit again in season. We should be like that. Acting almost unconsciously.”

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Hays translation
V, 6
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V

“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”

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Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.”

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Meditations. ix. 19.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and… rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.”

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X, 8
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X

“Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?”

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VII, 57
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.”

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VII, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.”

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Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 23
Originale: Πᾶν μοι συναρμόζει ὃ σοὶ εὐάρμοστόν ἐστιν, ὦ κόσμε· οὐδέν μοι πρόωρον οὐδὲ ὄψιμον ὃ σοὶ εὔκαιρον. πᾶν μοι καρπὸς ὃ φέρουσιν αἱ σαὶ ὧραι, ὦ φύσις· ἐκ σοῦ πάντα, ἐν σοὶ πάντα, εἰς σὲ πάντα. ἐκεῖνος μέν φησιν·

“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”

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VII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

“He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.”

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VIII, 58
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

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IX, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.”

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IV, 14 (trans. Meric Casaubon)
τὸ χρεὼν ἐπήρτηται· ἕως ζῇς, ἕως ἔξεστιν, ἀγαθὸς γενοῦ.
IV, 17 (trans.George Long)
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Variante: Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

“All things are the same,—familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.”

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IX, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX

“Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.”

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V, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V