Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus · Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
27. The Pythagoreans bid us in the morning look to the heavens that we
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may be reminded of those bodies which continually do the same things and in the same manner perform their work, and also be reminded of their purity and nudity. For there is no veil over a star.
28. Consider what a man Socrates was when he dressed himself in a skin, after Xanthippe had taken his cloak and gone out, and what Socrates said to his friends who were ashamed of him and drew back from him when they saw him dressed thus.
29. Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself. Much more is this so in life.
30. A slave thou art: free speech is not for thee.
31. And my heart laughed within. Odyssey, ix. 413.
32. And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words. HESIOD, Works and Days, 184.
33. To look for the fig in winter is a mad-man's act: such is he who looks for his child when it is no longer allowed (Epictetus, iii. 24, 87).
