A card from a free library — ask anything, no account, works offline. Every card carries its source.
Aurelius, Meditations 7.12: Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man's...
aurelius meditations
Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good; not for any man's sake, but for thine own nature's sake; as if either gold, or the emerald, or purple, should ever be saying to themselves, Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, I must still be an emerald, and I must keep my colour.
source
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_07_xii
card id
card_n_3fead6d04b56
adjoining cards
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 12.17: No operation whatsoever it he, ceasing for a while, can be truly said to suff...
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 9.21: As thou thyself, whoever thou art, were made for the perfection and consummat...
- on the shelf of → The classics — the great books, kept whole — a member of the classics shelf in the keeping
Is this card incomplete? Tell the library — it will call out for more ↗