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Aurelius, Meditations 12.26: What is the present estate of my understanding?
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What is the present estate of my understanding? For herein lieth all indeed. As for all other things, they are without the compass of mine own will: and if without the compass of my will, then are they as dead things unto me, and as it were mere smoke.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_12_xxvi
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