Meditations by Marcus Aurelius tr. by George W. Chrystal (Golden Treasure Series)
The “Golden Treasure” presents most Beautiful and Established Classic translations of The Meditations, Rome Emperor`s Philosophical Masterpiece. Not a single Translation including Modern and Acclaimed ones is perfect and everyone possesses hidden gems of a Genius` Thought! Feel free to acquaint yourself with the most poetic ones and choose YOUR Flavour! Translated by Gerald Rendal: 2.4 Think how long you have gone on postponing, how often the gods have granted days of grace, which you have foiled to use. It is high time to give heed to the order of which you are a part, and to the great disposer, of whom your being is an effluence; and to perceive that the limit of your time is circumscribed; use it to gain the unclouded calm, or 'twill be gone, and nevermore within your power. by George Long: 2.4 Remember how long thou hast been putting off these things, and how often thou hast received an opportunity from the gods, and yet dost not use it. Thou must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a part, and of what administrator of the universe thy existence is an efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. by A. S. L. Farquharson: 2.4 Remember how long you have been putting off these things, and how many times the gods have given you days of grace, and yet you do not use them. Now is it high time to perceive the kind of Universe whereof you are a part and the nature of the governor of the Universe from whom you subsist as an effluence, and that the term of your time is circumscribed, and that unless you use it to attain calm of mind, time will be gone and you will be gone and the opportunity to use it will not be yours again. by George W. Chrystal: 2.4 Think of your long procrastination, and of the many opportunities given you by the Gods, but left unused. Surely it is high time to understand the Universe of which you are a part, and the Ruler of that Universe, of whom you are an emanation; that a limit is set to your days, which, if you use them not for your enlightenment, will depart, as you yourself will, and return no more. by John Jackson: 2.4 Bethink thee how long thou hast delayed to do these things; how many days of grace Heaven hath vouch safed thee and thou neglected. Now is the time to learn at last what is the nature of the universe whereof thou art part; what of the power that governs the universe, whereof thou art an emanation. Forget not there is a boundary set to thy time, and that if thou use it not to uncloud thy soul it will anon be gone, and thou with it, never to return again. by Francis Hutcheson: 2.4 Remember how long you have put off these things; and how often you have neglected to use the opportunities offered you by the Gods. It is high time to understand what sort of whole you are a part of; and who that President in the universe is, from whom you flowed, as a small stream from a great fountain. There is a certain time appointed for you, which, if you don’t employ in making all calm and serene within you, it will pass away, and you along with it; and never more return.