Stoic Snippets 28

If our intellectual part is common, the reason also, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common. 

If this is so, common also is the reason that commands us what to do, and what not to do. 

If this is so, there is a common law also. 

If this is so, we are fellow citizens. 

If this is so, we are members of some political community. 

If this is so, the world is in a manner a state.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.4