Meditations 07.46

But, my good friend, reflect whether that which is noble and good is not something different from saving and being saved; for as to a man living such or such a time, at least one who is really a man, consider if this is not a thing to be dismissed from the thoughts: and there must be no love of life: but as to these matters a man must intrust them to the deity and believe what the women say, that no man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)

Meditations 07.45

For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness of deserting his post.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)

Meditations 07.44

From Plato: But I would make this man a sufficient answer, which is this: Thou sayest not well, if thou thinkest that a man who is good for anything at all ought to compute the hazard of life or death, and should not rather look to this only in all that he does, whether he is doing what is just or unjust, and the works of a good or a bad man.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)

Meditations 07.43

No joining others in their wailing, no violent emotion.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)

Meditations 07.42

For the good is with me, and the just.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)

Meditations 07.41

If gods care not for me and for my children,
There is a reason for it.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)

Meditations 07.40

Life must be reaped like the ripe ears of corn:  One man is born; another dies.

(podcast episode) (original Greek)