When circumstances have compelled you to be disturbed in some way, quickly return to yourself and do not stay out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for you will have more mastery over the harmony by continually returning to 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
“When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to 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
“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 11)