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Aurelius, Meditations 8.2: Upon every action that thou art about, put this question to thyself; How will...
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Upon every action that thou art about, put this question to thyself; How will this when it is done agree with me? Shall I have no occasion to repent of it? Yet a very little while and I am dead and gone; and all things are at end. What then do I care for more than this, that my present action whatsoever it be, may be the proper action of one that is reasonable; whose end is, the common good; who in all things is ruled and governed by the same law of right and reason, by which God Himself is.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_08_ii
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