Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 6.34 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.34
How many pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides, tyrants.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.34, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesPleasure cannot be what makes a life good, since robbers, murderers of their own fathers and tyrants have enjoyed plenty of it.
Older wording
- “patricides”
- — people who murder their fathers
Themes and situations
- Pleasure and pain
- Virtue and character
- Justice and fairness
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