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Aurelius, Meditations 4.22: Either this world is a κόσμος or comely piece, because all disposed and gover...
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Either this world is a κόσμος or comely piece, because all disposed and governed by certain order: or if it be a mixture, though confused, yet still it is a comely piece. For is it possible that in thee there should be any beauty at all, and that in the whole world there should be nothing but disorder and confusion? and all things in it too, by natural different properties one from another differenced and distinguished; and yet all through diffused, and by natural sympathy, one to another united, as they are?
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_04_xxii
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