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 EIGHTH BOOK - Meditation XVII.

 

For Context, Read THE EIGHTH BOOK - Meditation XVII Below

Whatsoever is, was made for something: as a horse, a vine.

Why wonderest thou?

The sun itself will say of itself, I was made for something; and so hath every god its proper function.

What then were then made for? to disport and delight thyself?

See how even common sense and reason cannot brook it.