“Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.”
Zdroj: Meditations
“Look to nothing, not even for a moment except to reason.”
Zdroj: Meditations
No printed sources exist for this prior to 2009, and this seems to have been an attribution which arose on the internet, as indicated by web searches and rationales provided at "Marcus Aurelius and source checking" at Three Shouts on a Hilltop (14 June 2011) http://threeshoutsonahilltop.blogspot.com/2011/06/marcus-aurelius-and-source-checking.html
This quote may be a paraphrase of Meditations, Book II:
Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.
But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil;
but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence?
But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil
Misattributed
Meditations. v. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Hays translation
All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
II, 3
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II
“Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.”
VIII, 22
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.”
VII, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
τί λοιπὸν ἢ ἀπολαύειν τοῦ ζῆν συνάπτοντα ἄλλο ἐπ ἄλλῳ ἀγαθόν, ὥστε μηδὲ τὸ βραχύτατον διάστημα ἀπολείπειν;
XII, 29
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
“All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.”
IV, 44
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
of deserting his post
VII, 45
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Alternate Translation: Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X, 5