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Sunday, March 27, 2022

Stoic Snippets 134


This is a fine saying of Plato: 

That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them in their assemblies, armies, agricultural labors, marriages, treaties, births, deaths, noise of the courts of justice, desert places, various nations of barbarians, feasts, lamentations, markets, a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.48



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