#marcus aurelius antonius

[cuckmarston]

kittens

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Just as a trained surgeon constantly keeps his tools at the ready, so must you hold your mind and ability to understand all things at the ready, and always abide by your principles. Humanity and the universe are linked: you can’t do anything well without appreciating the profound but unseen links between them.

Ὥσπερ οἱ ἰατροὶ ἀεὶ τὰ ὄργανα καὶ σιδήρια πρόχειρα ἔχουσι πρὸς τὰ αἰφνίδια τῶν θεραπευμάτων, οὕτω τὰ δόγματα σὺ ἕτοιμα ἔχε πρὸς τὸ τὰ θεῖα καὶ ἀνθρώπινα εἰδέναι, καὶ πᾶν καὶ τὸ μικρότατον οὕτω ποιεῖν ὡς τῆς ἀμφοτέρων πρὸς ἄλληλα συνδέσεως μεμνημένον. οὔτε γὰρ ἀνθρώπινόν τι ἄνευ τῆς ἐπὶ τὰ θεῖα συναναφορᾶς εὖ πράξεις οὔτ̓ ἔμπαλιν.

—Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν), lib iii, cap xiii (149 CE)

[Robert Scott Horton]

[99monochrome]

A short comic on Elagabalus

[motivation-and-fitness]

[cuckmarston]

early birthday present for @gorbo-longstocking

read DNBTS right now or perish in the fire below

[cuckmarston]

@gorbo-longstocking and i talking about modern caracalla being weirdly obsessed with the face huggers from alien.

imagine having normal people sex with him and he suddenly drops "i'm a facehugger now" on you out of the blue

[chvnx]

I am composed of the formal and the material; and neither of them will perish into non-existence, as neither of them came into existence out of non-existence. Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on for ever. And by consequence of such a change I too exist, and those who begot me, and so on for ever in the other direction. For nothing hinders us from saying so, even if the universe is administered according to definite periods of revolution.