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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