WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/22891/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Marcus Aurelius</b></a></p><blockquote> Do unsavoury armpits and bad breath make you angry? What good will it do you? Given the mouth and armpits the man has got, that condition is bound to produce those odours.<br> “After all, though, the fellow is endowed with reason, and he is perfectly able to understand what is offensive if he gives any thought to it.”<br> Well and good: but you yourself are also endowed with reason; so apply your reasonableness to move him to a like reasonableness; expound, admonish. If he pays attention, you will have worked a cure, and there will be no need for passion; leave that to actors and streetwalkers.<br> <br> [Τῷ γράσωνι μήτι ὀργίζῃ, μήτι τῷ ὀζοστόμῳ ὀργίζῃ; τί σοι ποιήσει; τοιοῦτον στόμα ἔχει, τοιαύτας μάλας ἔχει, ἀνάγκη τοιαύτην ἀποφορὰν ἀπὸ τοιούτων γίνεσθαι.<br> — ἀλλ̓ ὁ ἄνθρωπος λόγον ἔχει, φησί, καὶ δύναται συννοεῖν ἐφιστάνων τί πλημμελεῖ.<br> — εὖ σοι γένοιτο: τοιγαροῦν καὶ σὺ λόγον ἔχεις, κίνησον λογικῇ διαθέσει λογικὴν διάθεσιν, δεῖξον, ὑπόμνησον: εἰ γὰρ ἐπαίει, θεραπεύσεις καὶ οὐ χρεία ὀργῆς.<br> Οὔτε τραγῳδὸς οὔτε πόρνη.]</blockquote><p><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν],</i> Book 5, ch. 28 (2.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/marcus-aureleus/22891/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2289…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaurelius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcusaurelius</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=marcusaureliusmeditations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcusaureliusmeditations</span></a> ##anger <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=badbreath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>badbreath</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=bodyodor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bodyodor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=correction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>correction</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dramaqueen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dramaqueen</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=odor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>odor</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=offense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>offense</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=offensiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>offensiveness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reason</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=smell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smell</span></a></p>