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Aurelius, Meditations 4.30: Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not attained to that perfect sim...
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Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not attained to that perfect simplicity: thou art yet subject to many troubles and perturbations; not yet free from all fear and suspicion of external accidents; nor yet either so meekly disposed towards all men, as thou shouldest; or so affected as one, whose only study and only wisdom is, to be just in all his actions.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_04_xxx
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