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  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.” Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From Meditations: A New Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays, page 138.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus Aurelius mean by this paragraph?

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From Meditations: A New Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays, page 138.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus Aurelius mean by this paragraph?

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From Meditations: A New Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays, page 138.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus Aurelius mean by this paragraph?

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What does Marcus Aurelius meantmean by quoting Plato here?

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From: Aurelius, Marcus (2002-05-14). Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) (p. 138).Meditations: A New Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition, page 138.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus Aurelius mean by this paragraph?

What does Marcus Aurelius meant by quoting Plato here?

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From: Aurelius, Marcus (2002-05-14). Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) (p. 138). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus mean by this paragraph?

What does Marcus Aurelius mean by quoting Plato here?

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From Meditations: A New Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays, page 138.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus Aurelius mean by this paragraph?

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  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”
  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From: Aurelius, Marcus (2002-05-14). Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) (p. 138).Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) (p. 138). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus mean by this paragraph? Thank you.

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

Aurelius, Marcus (2002-05-14). Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) (p. 138). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus mean by this paragraph? Thank you.

  1. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking goats or sheep.”

From: Aurelius, Marcus (2002-05-14). Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) (p. 138). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

What is an "empty field"? What does Marcus mean by this paragraph?

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