Приписывается: Marcus Aurelius

«Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by.»
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Этого нет в трудах: Marcus Aurelius

A modern text circulating online. It is not found in the Meditations; it vaguely recalls the dilemma of providence or atoms (II 11; XII 14), but neither its form nor its meaning is Marcus Aurelius'.

Источник: Marco Aurelio. Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν (Meditaciones). Texto griego en Wikisource en griego; trad. inglesa de George Long, The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Londres, 1862), en Wikisource en inglés.

Что было сказано на самом деле

Подлинные слова: Marcus Aurelius

«Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.»
Meditaciones II 1. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1862); español: traducción propia.
«Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux.»
Meditaciones II 17. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1862); español: traducción propia.
«It is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.»
Meditaciones IV 3. Griego: Wikisource; inglés: George Long (1862); español: traducción propia.

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