The Way Things Are; The Discourses Of; The Meditations Of; The Six Enneads
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“Everything which is in any way beautiful is beautiful in itself, and terminates in itself, not having praise as part of itself. Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised. I affirm this also of the things which are called beautiful by the vulgar, for example, material things and works of art. 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?” (Page 250)
“Body, soul, intelligence: to the body belong sensations, to the soul appetites, to the intelligence principles.” (Page 248)
“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.” (Page 250)
“For the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not.” (Page 244)
“We must make the best use that we can of the things which are in our power, and use the rest according to their nature” (Page 99)
- Title: The Way Things Are; The Discourses Of; The Meditations Of; The Six Enneads
- Authors: Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Plotinus
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 11
- Publishers: Robert P. Gwinn, Encyclopedia Britannica
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Didactic poetry, Latin › Translations into English; Philosophy, Ancient; Didactic poetry, Latin
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW11
- Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:06Z