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Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE

Meditations 6.3 — Marcus Aurelius

Translation by George Long (1862)

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.3

Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape thee.
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Look inward and examine things closely, so that you grasp what each one really is and what it is truly worth instead of accepting its surface.

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  • Judgements and impressions
  • Learning and progress
  • Virtue and character
  • A hard decision

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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.3, tr. George Long (1862)