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Aurelius, Meditations 5.11: What is the use that now at this present I make of my soul?
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What is the use that now at this present I make of my soul? Thus from time to time and upon all occasions thou must put this question to thyself; what is now that part of mine which they call the rational mistress part, employed about? Whose soul do I now properly possess? a child's? or a youth's? a woman's? or a tyrant's? some brute, or some wild beast's soul?
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_05_xi
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