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Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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or comely piece, because all disposed and governed by certain order:
or if it be a mixture, though confused, yet still it is a comely piece.
For is it possible that in thee there should be any beauty at all,
and that in the whole world there should be nothing but disorder
and confusion? and all things in it too, by natural different
properties one from another differenced and distinguished; and yet
all through diffused, and by natural sympathy, one to another united,
as they are?

XXIII. A black or malign disposition, an effeminate disposition;
an hard inexorable disposition, a wild inhuman disposition,
a sheepish disposition, a childish disposition; a blockish,
a false, a scurril, a fraudulent, a tyrannical: what then?
If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things
that are in it; why not he a stranger as well, that wonders
at the things that are done in it?

XXIV. He is a true fugitive, that flies from reason, by which
men are sociable. He blind, who cannot see with the eyes
of his understanding. He poor, that stands in need of another,
and hath not in himself all things needful for this life.
He an aposteme of the world, who by being discontented with those
things that happen unto him in the world, doth as it were apostatise,
and separate himself from common nature's rational administration.
For the same nature it is that brings this unto thee,
whatsoever it be, that first brought thee into the world.
He raises sedition in the city, who by irrational actions
withdraws his own soul from that one and common soul of
all rational creatures.

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