The George Long translation of 1862:
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 10.
Chrystal's 2017 rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742:
The Gods desire not adulation, but that reasoning beings should grow in likeness to themselves. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 10.
Image: Statue of the Nile God (Statue del dio Nilo) found during the excavation of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The allegorical representation of the Nile is an old man lying in the muddy bank of the river in Alexandria probably originating in Alexandria in the third century, BCE, from where it spread throughout the Roman world. The Nile leaning against a sphinx is holding a curnocopia full of fruit and a bundle of ears of wheat, attributes which categorize him as a benevolent god to whom the fertility of Egypt is entrusted. Now in the Vatican Museum in Rome. Image courtesy of Flickr user Rodney (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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