Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 7.9 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.9
All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other thing. For things have been coordinated, and they combine to form the same universe [order]. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one God who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, one common reason in all intelligent animals, and one truth; if indeed there is also one perfection for all animals which are of the same stock and participate in the same reason.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.9, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesEverything in the universe is bound together in a sacred web: one cosmos, one divine reason running through it, one law and one truth shared by every reasoning being.
Older wording
- “implicated”
- — intertwined or involved with
- “pervades”
- — runs through and fills
- “coordinated”
- — arranged to work together
Themes and situations
- Nature and the cosmos
- Community and our duty to others
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