The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Stoic Snippets 113


The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fishponds, laborings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by strings—all alike. 

It is your duty then in the midst of such things to show good humor and not a proud air; to understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.3



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