Meditations by Marcus Aurelius translated by George W. Chrystal (~180) Book 8 Part 1 (1-17)

  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius translated by George W. Chrystal (~180) Book 8 Part 1 (1-17)

Bonus:

Gene Ray had time for some kind of philosophy.

Summary: It's the same. They're all the same.

Commentary:

I decided to try to muscle through Meditations, because the next volume is also mostly small pieces. To get to not shorter pieces I’d have to jump all the way out to volume 7 (I’m currently working in 1 and 2) to The Imitation of The Christ. I didn’t realize when I was reading them 2 years ago that that’s how most of it is. Some Fruits of Solitude is longer, so this is easier to clean out (I like having one shorty, but not two at a time, so I just want to clear something.) Anyway, I’m going to keep the short notes on the doc itself, and just save this space for more interesting/specific stuff.

I liked 8.8: You lack leisure for reading; but leisure to repress all insolence you do not lack. You have leisure to keep yourself superior to pleasure and pain and vain glory, to restrain all anger against the ungrateful, nay, even to lavish loving care upon them.

You don’t have time to read, but you have time to bitch.

And 8.16 Remember that to change your course, and to follow any man who can set you right is no compromise of your freedom. The act is your own, performed on your own impulse and judgment, and according to your own understanding.

Don’t be embarrassed to change your mind.