Questions tagged [marcus-aurelius]
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What exactly did Marcus Autelius mean by “To pursue the impossible is madness: and it is impossible for bad men not to act in character.”?
why he did write that? Does this paragraph make any sense? Maybe, he wanted to say it is impossible to be good man without good characters? Any assumption?
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Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
My question is short. Are there any contradicting things in Meditations of Marcus Aurelius? Contradictions in between his quotes or quotes and real life.
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What does Marcus Aurelius mean by quoting Plato here?
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 ...
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What does Marcus Aurelius mean by 'sympathetic link'?
I am reading Meditation by Marcus Aurelius and finding difficulty in understanding this sentence:
When they (agitations of the flesh) make their way into your thoughts, through the sympathetic link ...
