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48 Zitate, um die zeitlose Weisheit von Marcus Aurelius zu entdecken

WISDOM OF MARCUS AURELIUS & SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS

Selbstbetrachtungen IV, 17
Original altgriech.: "Μὴ ὡς μύρια μέλλων ἔτη ζῆν. τὸ χρεὼν ἐπήρτηται' ἕως ζῇς, ἕως ἔξεστιν, ἀγαθὸς γενοῦ."
Lat.: "Ne ut qui millia annorum victurus sit; fatum impendet; dum vivis, dum licet, fac bonus fias."
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Selbstbetrachtungen XII, 13
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Selbstbetrachtungen II, 4. Übersetzung durch Arno Mauersberger in: Der Weg zu sich selbst, Anaconda Verlag, Köln, 2008, ISBN 3866473109, S. 14.
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Selbstbetrachtungen IV, 5
Original altgriech.: "Ὁ θάνατος τοιοῦτον, οἷον γένεσις, φύσεως μυστήριον' σύγκρισις ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν στοιχείων, εἰς ταὐτὰ ‹λύσις›."
Lat.: "Mors tale quid est, quale ortus, naturae actio occulta, concretio ex elementis et dissolutio in eadem."
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Meditations

Selbstbetrachtungen XII, 6
Original altgriech.: "Ἔθιζε καὶ ὅσα ἀπογινώσκεις."
Lat.: "Adsuesce etiam iis, quae fieri posse desperas."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VI, 13
Original altgriech.: "Οἷον δὴ τὸ φαντασίαν λαμβάνειν ἐπὶ τῶν ὄψων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἐδωδίμων, ὅτι νεκρὸς οὗτος ἰχθύος, οὗτος δὲ νεκρὸς ὄρνιθος ἢ χοίρου' καὶ πάλιν, ὅτι ὁ Φάλερνος χυλάριόν ἐστι σταφυλίου καὶ ἡ περιπόρφυρος τριχία προβατίου αἱματίῳ κόγχης δεδευμένα."
Lat.: "Quemadmodum iam de obsoniis atque eiusmodi eduliis imaginem animo concipimus, ut, hoc piscis cadaver esse, illud cadaver avis aut porci, item, Falernum esse succulum uvulae, praetextam oviculae pilos, conchae cruore infectos."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 21
Original altgriech.: "Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη."
Lat.: "Instat tempus, quo tu omnium oblitus eris: instat, quo omnes tui obliti erunt."
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Selbstbetrachtungen IX, 8

Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 17 (nach Übersetzung von F. C. Schneider)
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Selbstbetrachtungen VI, 6
Original altgriech.: "Ἄριστος τρόπος τοῦ ἀμύνεσθαι τὸ μὴ ἐξομοιοῦσθαι."
Lat.: "Optima ratio ulciscendi, non similem malis fieri."
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Selbstbetrachtungen V, 24

Selbstbetrachtungen V, 16 (nach Übersetzung von Albert Wittstock)
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"Aufzeichnungen über mich selbst", V,1, www.uni rostock.de http://www.uni-rostock.de/fakult/philfak/fkw/iph/strobach/veranst/therapy/marcaur.html
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Selbstbetrachtungen V, 18
Original altgriech.: "Οὐδὲν οὐδενὶ συμβαίνει ὃ οὐχὶ ἐκεῖνο πέφυκε φέρειν."
Lat.: "Nihil cuiquam accidit, ad quod ferendum natura non sit comparatus."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VIII, 50
Original altgriech.: "Σίκυος πικρός; ἄφες. βάτοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ; ἔκκλινον. ἀρκεῖ, μὴ προσεπείπῃς' τί δὲ καὶ ἐγένετο ταῦτα ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ."
Lat.: "Cucumis amarus: mitte! Vepres in via: declina! sufficit. Noli haec verba addere: »Quare quaeso haec quoque in mundo sunt?«."
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Selbstbetrachtungen, IV, 49.
Original altgriech.: "Ὅμοιον εἶναι τῇ ἄκρᾳ, ᾗ διηνεκῶς τὰ κύματα προσρήσσεται' ἡ δὲ ἕστηκε καὶ περὶ αὐτὴν κοιμίζεται τὰ φλεγμήναντα τοῦ ὕδατος."
Lat.: "Promontorii instar esse, ad quod fluctus perpetuo alliduntur: illud autem consistit et circa se maris aestum compescit."
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Meditations

Selbstbetrachtungen V, 16 (nach Übersetzung von C. F. Schneider)
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Selbstbetrachtungen IV, 7

Essen : Phaidon, [1996]. (Bibliothek der Philosophie ; Band 2), - ISBN 3-88851-105-4 - Kapitel IV, Abschnitt 40
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Original: (el) Πάντα ἀλλήλοις ἐπιπέπλεκται καὶ ἡ σύνδεσις ἱερά, καὶ σχεδόντι οὐδὲν ἀλλότριον ἄλλο ἄλλῳ˙ συγκατατέτακται γὰρ καὶ συγκοσμεῖ τὸν αὐτὸν κόσμον. κόσμος τε γὰρ εἷς ἐξ ἁπάντων καὶθεὸς εἷς δἰ ἁπάντων καὶ οὐσία μία καὶ νόμος εἷς, λόγος κοινὸςπάντων τῶν νοερῶν ζῴων, καὶ ἀλήθεια μία, εἴγε καὶ τελειότηςμία τῶν ὁμογενῶν καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου μετεχόντων ζῴων.

Meditations

Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 17 (nach Übersetzung von Albert Wittstock)
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Selbstbetrachtungen IX, 9
Original altgriech.: "‹Πάντα› ὅσα κοινοῦ τινος μετέχει πρὸς τὸ ὁμογενὲς σπεύδει."
Lat.: "Quaecunque aliquid commune habent, ad id, quod eiusdem generis est, tendunt."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VIII, 20
Original altgriech.: "Ἡ φύσις ἐστόχασται ἑκάστου οὐδέν τι ἔλασσον τῆς ἀπολήξεως ἢ τῆς ἀρχῆς τε καὶ διεξαγωγῆς, ὡς ὁ ἀναβάλλων τὴν σφαῖραν."
Lat.: "Natura cuiusque rei rationem habet, non minus, quod ad ejus finem attinet, quam ad ortum eius et transitum, ad instar eius, qui pilam emittit."
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Selbstbetrachtungen VII, 25
Original altgriech.: "Πάντα ὅσα ὁρᾷς ὅσον οὔπω μεταβαλεῖ ἡ τὰ ὅλα διοικοῦσα φύσις καὶ ἄλλα ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας αὐτῶν ποιήσει καὶ πάλιν ἄλλα ἐκ τῆς ἐκείνων οὐσίας, ἵνα ἀεὶ νεαρὸς ᾖ ὁ κόσμο."
Lat.: "Quaecunque vides, haec omnia iamiam natura, quae res omnes administrat, mutabit, aliaque ex eorum materia faciet, et ex horum rursus alia, ut mundus semper sit novus."
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Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

VI, 6
Variante: The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

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Variante: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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VII, 59
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

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Meditations. iv. 17.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Hays translation
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee. What then can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just? For instance, if a man should stand by a limpid pure spring, and curse it, the spring never ceases sending up potable water; and if he should cast clay into it or filth, it will speedily disperse them and wash them out, and will not be at all polluted. How then shalt thou possess a perpetual fountain? By forming thyself hourly to freedom conjoined with contentment, simplicity and modesty.
VIII, 51
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII

Quelle: Meditations (Hovory k sobě)

Misattributed
Quelle: Cited as being from The Meditations. This quote does not exist there; although there are several other statements about everything being an opinion, none of these are connected to a sentence about perspectives.

Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον.
X, 16
Variante: Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X

Misattributed
Quelle: The first citation appears in a translation of Leo Tolstoy's Bethink Yourselves! http://www.nonresistance.org/docs_htm/Tolstoy/~Bethink_Yourselves/BY_chapter08.html by NONRESISTANCE.ORG. The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear in a 1904 translation of Bethink Yourselves http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/bethink-yourselves/8/. The 1904 translation may be abridged, whereas the NONRESISTANCE.ORG translation claims to be unabridged.

X, 35
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of the diseased eye. And the healthy hearing and smelling ought to be ready to perceive all that can be heard and smelled. And the healthy stomach ought to be with respect to all food just as the mill with respect to all things which it is formed to grind. And accordingly the healthy understanding ought to be prepared for everything which happens; but that which says, Let my dear children live, and let all men praise whatever I may do, is an eye which seeks for green things, or teeth which seek for soft things.

X, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Kontext: Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise thyself about this part [of philosophy]. For nothing is so much adapted to produce magnanimity.... But as to what any man shall say or think about him, or do against him, he never even thinks of it, being himself contented with these two things: with acting justly in what he now does, and being satisfied with what is now assigned to him; and he lays aside all distracting and busy pursuits, and desires nothing else than to accomplish the straight course through the law, and by accomplishing the straight course to follow God.

Quelle: Meditations

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VII, 69
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

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VI, 39
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI

IV, 43
Quelle: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV

Variante: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Quelle: Meditations