Stoic Snippets 164

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man. 

Now it is a proper work of a man to be benevolent to his own kind, to despise the movements of the senses, to form a just judgment of plausible appearances, and to take a survey of the Nature of the Universe and of the things which happen in it. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.26 

IMAGE: George Clausen, The Boy and the Man (1908)