If a thing is difficult for you to accomplish, do not think that it is impossible for man; but if anything is possible for man and in keeping with his nature, think that you too can attain it.
AI put this 1862 translation into today's English. Only the wording changed: each rewrite was checked against the original to keep its exact meaning.
Original translation
“If a thing is difficult to be accomplished by thyself, do not think that it is impossible for man: but if anything is possible for man and conformable to his nature, think that this can be attained by thyself too.”
AI put this 1862 translation into today's English. Only the wording changed: each rewrite was checked against the original to keep its exact meaning.
Original translation
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Translated by George Long, 1862
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”
― Marcus AureliusMeditations (Book VI, Section 19)