Meditations

George Long's translation, 1862. 12 parts, about 45,394 words, 3 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, seashores, and mountains, but it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself.
Book IV, 3 · Read it in Book IV
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.
Book IV, 17 · Read it in Book IV
Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
Book IV, 35 · Read it in Book IV
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Book V, 20 · Read it in Book V
Say to thyself at daybreak: I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant, the deceitful, the envious, the unsocial.
Book II, 1 · Read it in Book II

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Public domain in the United States; the Standard Ebooks edition is released under CC0. Translated by George Long. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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