Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 7.57 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.57
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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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.57, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesLove only what happens to you, since it was woven into your life from the start. Nothing could be more fitting for you than what has actually arrived.
Older wording
- “thread of thy destiny”
- — the Fates were imagined as spinning each life's events like a thread
Themes and situations
- Acceptance and fate
- Nature and the cosmos
- A career setback
- Illness or diagnosis
- Failure and mistakes
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