"Meditations" Marcus Aurelius

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"Men seek retirement in the country, on the sea-coast, in the mountains", according to Aurelius where should they seek retirement?

• with Gods
• into themselves (minds)
• with the stars
• in kind acts

What does Aurelius say about death?

• to fear it and live a virtuous life
• it pains him that some people die so quickly
• we all die and it matters not how quickly or slowly
• death can instruct us to ensure our posterity

What does Aurelius say about pain when we are hurt?

• to ask others for aid in mitigating the injury
• to pray to the Gods for guidance and help
• to suppress even the thought that one is hurt
• to wail and cry and release the pain

Why shouldn't we strive for fame and glory?

• people are fickle
• emperors are the only ones who may achieve it
• it is fleeting and when we die it dissipates quickly
• there is no fame or glory save in God

What do we need to continually focus on in order to be calm and maintain goodness?

• money
• reason
• our loved ones
• Gods

True beauty requires

• praise so that it lasts
• criticism so that it grows
• a master to control it
• nothing beyond itself

When Aurelius ponders where all the myriad of souls go when they survive us, he decides that they

• are recycled back into the whole
• remain to watch over us
• disappear into the universe
• merely stop existing

Aurelius states that we should not run from our social duty or we

• become tyrants
• lack compassion
• will possibly become evil ourselves
• risk alienating ourselves

What is the only constant in the universe?

• change
• love
• poverty
• acceptance