“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 4
“Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.”
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 4
Varianta: That which is really beautiful has no need of anything. (trans. George Long)
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 20
“Respect the faculty that forms thy judgments.”
III, 9
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III
“All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.”
Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.
IV, 35
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.”
X, 27
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
“And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.”
XI, 32
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI
“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations. xi. 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Meditations. ix. 19.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.”
VII, 21
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV, 23
Originál: Πᾶν μοι συναρμόζει ὃ σοὶ εὐάρμοστόν ἐστιν, ὦ κόσμε· οὐδέν μοι πρόωρον οὐδὲ ὄψιμον ὃ σοὶ εὔκαιρον. πᾶν μοι καρπὸς ὃ φέρουσιν αἱ σαὶ ὧραι, ὦ φύσις· ἐκ σοῦ πάντα, ἐν σοὶ πάντα, εἰς σὲ πάντα. ἐκεῖνος μέν φησιν·
“From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.”
VII, 36
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.”
IV, 14 (trans. Meric Casaubon)
τὸ χρεὼν ἐπήρτηται· ἕως ζῇς, ἕως ἔξεστιν, ἀγαθὸς γενοῦ.
IV, 17 (trans.George Long)
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Varianta: Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
“It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it.”
VII, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII