“Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity.”

—  Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations

VIII, 34
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again.... he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal... he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

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