The library of Marcus Aurelius

1. Plato 3 authority · 1 endorsed 4 citations

   Meditations

   book seven · book ten

   4 citations

   "Do you suppose that to a mind possessed of greatness and the contemplation of all time and of all substance, human life can seem any great thing?

2. Epictetus 2 authority · 1 endorsed 3 citations

   Meditations

   book one · book four · book eleven

   3 citations

   As one kisses his child, Epictetus used to say, one should whisper within, "Perhaps tomorrow you will die.

3. Republic Plato 1 refuted 1 citation

   Meditations

   book nine

   1 citation

   Do not hope for Plato's Republic, but be content if the smallest thing goes forward, and reflect how small a matter even the outcome of that is.

4. Theophrastus 1 endorsed 1 citation

   Meditations

   book two

   1 citation

   Theophrastus speaks like a philosopher when, in comparing offences — as one might compare such things on the common view — he says that the faults committed through desire are graver than those committed through anger.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Meditations

A verse in a play · Doctrine of universal cooperation · Doctrine that every soul is robbed of truth against its will · Fragment on anger toward things · Life and character of Antoninus · Middle and New Comedy · Old Comedy · Prayer formula invoking joy for gods and men · Prayer of the Athenians · Saying about Xenocrates · Saying of a comic poet · Saying on kingliness and slander · Saying on the endurance of pain · Sayings about Asclepius's prescriptions · Unattributed poetic line on virtues fleeing to Olympus · Verse asserting the right and the good are with me · Verse on convention and the elements · Verse on earthly and heavenly origins · Verse on life reaped like corn · Verse on the gods' neglect and its reason · Verses on magic spells against death and enduring the gale from God · doctrine of elemental transformation · philosophical maxim on the rounded sphere · saying on doing few things · sayings addressed to Monimus · sayings/precept of Socrates · teaching on withdrawal from the senses · teachings of the Pythagoreans · unspecified poem (Athenian civic verse) · unspecified poetic work ¶ · unspecified saying on judgment · unspecified sayings on sickness and natural philosophy · unspecified tragedy (Euripides or similar tragic corpus) · unspecified verse on the sphere · writings of the Epicureans

2 works in the library quote Marcus Aurelius — 2 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Hugo Grotius 1 citation · Tertullian 1 citation

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1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 10 2 passages anchored here

   Quoted twice as a direct authority on royal accountability.

   ” And Marcus Aurelius speaking of subordinate magistrates, said, that they were under the controul of the sovereign:

2. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   apologeticum

   Cited directly as documentary proof favorable to Christians.

   We, on the contrary, can produce a protector, if the letters of Marcus Aurelius, that most weighty emperor, be sought out, in which he testifies that the Germanic drought was broken by a rain obtained, as it chanced, through the prayers of Christian soldiers.