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Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE

Meditations 10.16 — Marcus Aurelius

Translation by George Long (1862)

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.16

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
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Stop talking about what a good person ought to be like and just be one.

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  • Virtue and character
  • Self-discipline and habit
  • Learning and progress
  • Speech and silence
  • Procrastination
  • An ethical dilemma

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