Marcus Aurelius · 121–180 CE
Meditations 7.72 — Marcus Aurelius
Translation by George Long (1862)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.72
Whatever the rational and political [social] faculty finds to be neither intelligent nor social, it properly judges to be inferior to itself.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.72, tr. George Long (1862)
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In plain English
AI-written notesA mind that is both reasonable and community-minded can rightly judge anything thoughtless or antisocial to be beneath it, so it need not be shaken by such things.
Older wording
- “political”
- — social, concerned with life in a community
Themes and situations
- Virtue and character
- Community and our duty to others
- Judgements and impressions
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