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Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE

Meditations 7.11 — Marcus Aurelius

Translation by George Long (1862)

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.11

To the rational animal the same act is according to nature and according to reason.
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For a human being, acting according to nature and acting according to reason amount to the same thing.

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“rational animal”
— a human being

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  • Virtue and character
  • Nature and the cosmos

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.11, tr. George Long (1862)