Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 6.58 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.58
No man will hinder thee from living according to the reason of thy own nature: nothing will happen to thee contrary to the reason of the universal nature.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.58, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesNobody can stop you from living according to your own rational nature, and nothing that happens to you runs against the nature of the universe. So you cannot be blocked in what matters most, and you are never the victim of events that are out of line with how the world works.
Older wording
- “universal nature”
- — the rational order of the whole universe
Themes and situations
- Freedom
- What is in our control
- Acceptance and fate
- Virtue and character
- Anxiety about the future
- Being treated unfairly
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