Author: Marcus Aurelius

Cited by

• Romesh Gunesekera (1)
  • IN: The Sandglass (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No thing can go back to nothing.
    FROM: Meditations, Book IV, 4, (1559), Book, Ancient Rome
• Hollis Seamon (1)
  • IN: Somebody Up There Hates You (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wait for death with a cheerful mind.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Valerie Fitzgerald (1)
  • IN: Zemindar (1981) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...all the present time is a point in eternity. All things are little, changeable, perishable.
    FROM: The Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Daniel Godfrey (1)
  • IN: New Pompeii (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take something which is not yet his?
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Michael Walsh (2)
  • IN: Hostile Intent (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful.
    FROM: Meditations, Book II, (1559), Book, Italy
  • IN: Shock Warning (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Adapt yourself to the place where your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Susan Meissner (2)
  • IN: Secrets of a Charmed Life (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Our life is what our thoughts make it.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Reginald Hill (1)
  • IN: A Pinch of Snuff (1973) Fiction, Crime, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you find you hate the idea of getting out of bed in the morning, think of it this way – it's a man's work I'm getting up to do.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Jason Elliot (1)
  • IN: The Network (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Look at the inmost causes of things, stripped of their husks; note the intentions that underlie actions, study the essence of pain, pleasure, death, glory; observe how man's disquiet is all of his own making, and how troubles come never from another's hand, but like all else are creatures of our own opinion.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Anne Rice (1)
  • IN: Pandora (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy
• Lisa Scottoline (1)
  • IN: Betrayed (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
    FROM: Meditations, (1559), Book, Italy