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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

XXX. Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not

attained to that perfect simplicity: thou art yet subject

to many troubles and perturbations; not yet free from all

fear and suspicion of external accidents; nor yet either

so meekly disposed towards all men, as thou shouldest;

or so affected as one, whose only study and only wisdom is,

to be just in all his actions. XXXI. Behold and observe,

what is the state of their rational part; and those that the world

doth account wise, see what things they fly and are afraid of;

and what things they hunt after.