Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VIII, 48
“People with passion are people who will destroy—for a man's passion is notuntil he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he?”
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Variant translations:
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