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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XXII. Herein doth consist happiness of life, for a man to know

thoroughly the true nature of everything; what is the matter,

and what is the form of it: with all his heart and soul,

ever to do that which is just, and to speak the truth.

What then remaineth but to enjoy thy life in a course and coherence

of good actions, one upon another immediately succeeding,

and never interrupted, though for never so little a while?