The Meditations

 Table of Contents

 Book One

 Book Two

 Book Three

 Book Four

 Book Five

 What then is there which still detains thee here? If the objects of sense are easily changed and never stand still, and the organs of perception are d

 Book Six

 Book Seven

 This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

 Another may be more expert in casting his opponent but he is not more social, nor more modest, nor better disciplined to meet all that happens, nor m

 Book Eight

 Book Nine

 Book Ten

 Book Eleven

 And again

 And

 And other things of the same kind.

 Book Twelve

 and if thou shalt strive to live only what is really thy life, that is, the present - then thou wilt be able to pass that portion of life which remain

The Meditations

of

Marcus Aurelius

Translated by George Long