The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius AntoninusG. Bell, 1901 - 216 pages |
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... social animal , just as his virtue and his vice lie not in passivity , but in activity " ( Ix . 16 ) . The emperor Antoninus was a practical moralist . From his youth he followed a laborious discipline , and though his high station ...
... social animal , just as his virtue and his vice lie not in passivity , but in activity " ( Ix . 16 ) . The emperor Antoninus was a practical moralist . From his youth he followed a laborious discipline , and though his high station ...
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... social state is manifestly the Natural State of man , the state for which his Nature fits him ; and society amidst innumerable irregularities and disorders still subsists ; and perhaps we may say that the history of the past and our ...
... social state is manifestly the Natural State of man , the state for which his Nature fits him ; and society amidst innumerable irregularities and disorders still subsists ; and perhaps we may say that the history of the past and our ...
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... social act to another social act , thinking of God . " ( vI . 7. ) Again : " Love mankind . Follow God . " ( vII . 31. ) It is the characteristic of the rational soul for a man to love his neighbour . ( XI . 1. ) Antoninus teaches in ...
... social act to another social act , thinking of God . " ( vI . 7. ) Again : " Love mankind . Follow God . " ( vII . 31. ) It is the characteristic of the rational soul for a man to love his neighbour . ( XI . 1. ) Antoninus teaches in ...
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... social ; and my city and country , so far as I am Antoninus , is Rome ; but so far as I am a man , it is the world . The things then which are useful to these cities are alone useful to me . " ( VI . 44. ) It would be tedious , and it ...
... social ; and my city and country , so far as I am Antoninus , is Rome ; but so far as I am a man , it is the world . The things then which are useful to these cities are alone useful to me . " ( VI . 44. ) It would be tedious , and it ...
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... social . The next in order is not to yield to the persuasions of the body . when they are not conformable to the rational principle , which must govern . The third is freedom from error and from deception . " Let then the ruling ...
... social . The next in order is not to yield to the persuasions of the body . when they are not conformable to the rational principle , which must govern . The third is freedom from error and from deception . " Let then the ruling ...
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