Don't wait for a perfect world. Celebrate the smallest thing going right.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.29
Don't wait for a perfect world. Celebrate the smallest thing going right.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.29
The source
"Don't wait for a perfect world. Celebrate the smallest thing going right." Marcus Aurelius said it in Meditations 9.29. Translated by George Long, 1862.
"nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter"George Long, 1862, Meditations 9.29.
Who said it
Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Roman emperor who wrote private notes to himself on a military campaign. We know them as the Meditations.
Questions
- Who said "Don't wait for a perfect world. Celebrate the smallest thing going right."?
- Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Source: Meditations 9.29.
- What is the original wording?
- nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter (George Long, 1862). Translated by George Long, 1862.
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