Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 11.7 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.7
How plain does it appear that there is not another condition of life so well suited for philosophising as this in which thou now happenest to be.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.7, tr. George Long (1862)
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