Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS Compiled by David Widger CONTENTS ## MEDITATIONS ## THOUGHTS OF MARCUS AURELIUS MEDITATIONS OF MARCUS AURELIUS TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES MEDITATIONS By Marcus Aurelius MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS THE ROMAN EMPEROR BOOKS INTRODUCTION HIS FIRST BOOK THE SECOND BOOK THE THIRD BOOK THE FOURTH BOOK THE FIFTH BOOK THE SIXTH BOOK THE SEVENTH BOOK THE EIGHTH BOOK THE NINTH BOOK THE TENTH BOOK THE ELEVENTH BOOK THE TWELFTH BOOK APPENDIX NOTES GLOSSARY PARAGRAPHS WITH FIRST LINES HIS FIRST BOOK I. Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to II. Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of III. Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily IV. To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit V. From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not VI. Of Sextus, mildness and the pattern of a family governed with VII. From Alexander the Grammarian, to be un-reprovable myself, and not VIII. Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a IX. Of Alexander the Platonic, not often nor without great necessity to X. Of Catulus, not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, XI. From my brother Severus, to be kind and loving to all them of my XII. From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power XIII. In my father, I observed his meekness; his constancy without XIV. From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, XV. In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these. Betimes in the morning XVI. Whatsoever I am, is either flesh, or life, or that which we XVII. Whatsoever proceeds from the gods immediately, that any man will THE SECOND BOOK I. Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how II. Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to III. Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time IV. Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much V. For not observing the state of another man's soul, scarce was ever VI. These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature VII. Theophrastus, where he compares sin with sin (as after a vulgar VIII. Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, IX. Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the X. It is the part of a man endowed with a good understanding faculty, to XI. Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined XII. If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands XIII. Remember that all is but opinion and conceit, for those things XIV. A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first and especially, XV. The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever THE THIRD BOOK I. A man must not only consider how daily his life wasteth and II.