Get a random quote for Marcus Aurelius' book Meditations
meditations(number = NULL)
| number | The number(s) of the quotes you want from meditations_quotes. If NULL, returns random quote. |
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A string containing the quote.
meditations()#> [1] "How cruel it is not to allow men to strive after the things which appear to them to be suitable to their nature and profitable! And yet in a manner thou dost not allow them to do this, when thou art vexed because they do wrong. For they are certainly moved towards things because they suppose them to be suitable to their nature and profitable to them.- But it is not so.- Teach them then, and show them without being angry."meditations(497)#> [1] "If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be-"meditations(5)#> [1] "From my governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue party at the games in the Circus, nor a partizan either of the Parmularius or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work with my own hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs, and not to be ready to listen to slander."