Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them.
In plain words
Watch the stars move and imagine travelling along with them.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Meditations, Book VII.47, George Long translation, 1862 (Wikisource).
- Meditations
- 170 · Roman Empire · private philosophical journal, not written for publication
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