“This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them… a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.”

—  Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

VII, 48
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

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