Keep your principles ready, like a surgeon's tools.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.13
Keep your principles ready, like a surgeon's tools.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.13
The source
"Keep your principles ready, like a surgeon's tools." Marcus Aurelius said it in Meditations 3.13. Translated by George Long, 1862.
"As physicians have always their instruments and knives ready ... so do thou have principles ready"George Long, 1862, Meditations 3.13.
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 "Keep your principles ready, like a surgeon's tools."?
- Marcus Aurelius (121–180 AD). Source: Meditations 3.13.
- What is the original wording?
- As physicians have always their instruments and knives ready ... so do thou have principles ready (George Long, 1862). Translated by George Long, 1862.
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