Meditations 5.36.2

Reflections on Marcus Aurelius

Magnus Zeller, The Orator (1920)

. . . When you are calling out on the Rostra, have you forgotten, man, what these things are?

“Yes, but they are objects of great concern to these people!”

Will you too then be made a fool for these things?

“I was once a fortunate man, but I lost it, I know not how.”

But being fortunate means that a man has assigned to h…