The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Stoic Snippets 190


He who acts unjustly, acts impiously. 

For since the Universal Nature has made rational animals for the sake of one another, to help one another according to their deserts, but in no way to injure one another, he who transgresses Her will is clearly guilty of impiety towards the Highest Divinity. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.1 

IMAGE: Jean-Marc Nattier, Allegory of Justice Punishing Injustice (1737) 



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