Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 6.25 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.25
Consider how many things in the same indivisible time take place in each of us, things which concern the body and things which concern the soul: and so thou wilt not wonder if many more things, or rather all things which come into existence in that which is the one and all, which we call Cosmos, exist in it at the same time.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.25, tr. George Long (1862)
https://whatwouldstoicsdo.com/passage/meditations/6.25
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In plain English
AI-written notesA great deal happens in a single instant inside each person, in body and mind alike, so it should be no surprise that everything in the cosmos happens at once too.
Older wording
- “indivisible time”
- — a single instant
Themes and situations
- Nature and the cosmos
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