Meditations.

[the_grynne]

From Meditations, Book Two, by Marcus Aurelius:

Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of judgment. And, to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the

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[dorukai]

In Chinese?! That's weird.
Meditations is fantastic though, nice find :)

[the_grynne]

I was buying some notebooks yesterday after class and came out of the book store with Said's Orientalism in Chinese, Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal (a pity I left my English/French edition in Sydney, or I could compare), and an English/Chinese bilingual edition of Meditations. I think I'll make a task of copying it out, chapter by chapter, learning characters as I go.

[rodlox]

congrats!! you deserve it. (have fun with the Meditations)