Meditations Bibliomancy Reading
This oracle points to a randomly selected line from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. The entire meditation is provided for context.
Your passage is from THE SIXTH BOOK - Meditation XVII.
Who can choose but wonder at them?
For Context, Read THE SIXTH BOOK - Meditation XVII Below
Who can choose but wonder at them?
They will not speak well of them that are at the same time with them, and live with them; yet they themselves are very ambitious, that they that shall follow, whom they have never seen, nor shall ever see, should speak well of them.
As if a man should grieve that he hath not been commended by them, that lived before him.