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 THIRD BOOK - Meditation VIII.

 

For Context, Read THE THIRD BOOK - Meditation VIII Below

Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain thee either to break thy faith, or to lose thy modesty; to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust after anything, that requireth the secret of walls or veils.

But he that preferreth before all things his rational part and spirit, and the sacred mysteries of virtue which issueth from it, he shall never lament and exclaim, never sigh; he shall never want either solitude or company: and which is chiefest of all, he shall live without either desire or fear.

And as for life, whether for a long or short time he shall enjoy his soul thus compassed about with a body, he is altogether indifferent.

For if even now he were to depart, he is as ready for it, as for any other action, which may be performed with modesty and decency.

For all his life long, this is his only care, that his mind may always be occupied in such intentions and objects, as are proper to a rational sociable creature.