The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Stoic Snippets 209


As you yourself are a component part of a social system, so let every act of yours be a component part of social life. 

Whatever act of yours then has no reference either immediately or remotely to a social end, this tears asunder your life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement. 

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.23 



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