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Hi everybody, i've been looking all over the web to find 2 Marcus Aurelius quotes in its original language (roman or latin i suppose) but all i find are the english translations. Hope this will help me on my quest.
1st quote:
It's not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
2nd quote:
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so.

Im also looking for a website where i can find pictures of the fonts they used fot this language in those days.

Thx upfront.
 
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Both are from the Meditations. Your first is just a phrase picked from the last sentence of what is generally translated to the first "paragraph" of Book 12:

"If then, whatever the time may be when thou shalt be near to thy departure, neglecting everything else thou shalt respect only thy ruling faculty and the divinity within thee, and if thou shalt be afraid not because thou must some time cease to live, but if thou shalt fear never to have begun to live according to nature- then thou wilt be a man worthy of the universe which has produced thee, and thou wilt cease to be a stranger in thy native land, and to wonder at things which happen daily as if they were something unexpected, and to be dependent on this or that."
-- from the MIT Classics Online library

Your second is from Book 4, about halfway through:

"Consider that everything which happens, happens justly, and if thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so."

The original language of the Meditations (at least in its disseminated form) is Greek, not Latin. It is uncertain which language Marcus Aurelius would have used himself, but Greek was the scholarly language of the day, much as Latin was in the Middle Ages, so if someone considered the text worth preserving and publishing, it would have been translated into Greek if it was originally Latin. In any case, the only Greek edition of the Meditations I could find online lives at Scribd:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4628044/Marcus-AureliusThe-Meditations

Call me lazy, but I'll let you do the fishing in the Greek text. As for the "font", take a look at the entry titled "Formal Second Century CE" on this page:

http://users.ipa.net/~tanker/grkpal.htm

If you use all-caps in a modern Greek "handwritten" font, you may be able to capture the flavour of the original.
 
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Excellent reply Stan.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman, quoted in "Newsweek"
 
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Your second quote is about fate, and the first one is about living to the fullest, so maybe you'll like these too (they're some of my favorite MA quotes Smile

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
 
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