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Aurelius, Meditations 5.23: 'Where there shall neither roarer be, nor harlot.' Why so?
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'Where there shall neither roarer be, nor harlot.' Why so? As thou dost purpose to live, when thou hast retired thyself to some such place, where neither roarer nor harlot is: so mayest thou here. And if they will not suffer thee, then mayest thou leave thy life rather than thy calling, but so as one that doth not think himself anyways wronged. Only as one would say, Here is a smoke; I will out of it. And what a great matter is this! Now till some such thing force me out, I will continue free; neither shall any man hinder me to do what I will, and my will shall ever be by the proper nature of a reasonable and sociable creature, regulated and directed.
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 5.14: Reason, and rational power, are faculties which content themselves with thems...
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 6.14: Some things hasten to be, and others to be no more.
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