The Beautiful Language Of Marcus’s Philosophy | Ask DS
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
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Summary
There are so many beautiful passages in Meditations.
“The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven,” Marcus Aurelius writes in Book 3, “the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.” His poetic observation of the way stalks of wheat bend under their own weight. His reflection on the way things in life are often made beautiful by their imperfections.
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