The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Stoic Snippets 36


That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty. Which of these things is beautiful because it is praised, or spoiled by being blamed? Is such a thing as an emerald made worse than it was, if it is not praised? or gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a little knife, a flower, a shrub? 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.20 

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