When Marcus says "tolerate the stupid and ungrateful," think of your boss or a rude comment on social media.
1. The material of virtue is your own life, not someone else’s.
2. If you work at that which is before you, following right reason seriously, vigorously, calmly, without letting anything else distract you, keeping your divine part pure, as if you might have to give it back at once — if you hold to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, satisfied with your present action according to nature and with heroic truth in every word you speak — you will live well. And no one can stop you.
3. Be like a soldier waiting for the signal to retreat from life. No one requires you to be upset. The gods wait only for you to be free. marko aurelije samom sebi pdf
4. The universe loves to create what will happen next. It gives all things their turn.
5. You have been a citizen of this great city. What does it matter if for five years or for fifty? The laws are the same for all. So why be upset? There is no tyrant leaving this city, only nature taking you back.
6. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes any obstacle to action. What stands in the way becomes the way. When Marcus says "tolerate the stupid and ungrateful,"
7. The best way to honor yourself is to be content with what nature gives you at this moment.
8. Nothing happens to anyone that they are not fitted by nature to bear.
9. When someone does wrong, pity them. They are blind about good and evil. The text is divided into 12 "books" (chapters),
10. How ridiculous and like a stranger is anyone who is surprised at anything that happens in life.
The text is divided into 12 "books" (chapters), but they are not linear. They are fragments. Here is how to approach them when you open your Marko Aurelije samom sebi pdf.