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Aurelius, Meditations 6.25: Is it not a cruel thing to forbid men to affect those things, which they conc...
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Is it not a cruel thing to forbid men to affect those things, which they conceive to agree best with their own natures, and to tend most to their own proper good and behoof? But thou after a sort deniest them this liberty, as often as thou art angry with them for their sins. For surely they are led unto those sins whatsoever they be, as to their proper good and commodity. But it is not so (thou wilt object perchance). Thou therefore teach them better, and make it appear unto them: but be not thou angry with them.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_06_xxv
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