You know from experience that in all your wanderings you have nowhere found the good life --- not in logic, not in wealth, not in glory, not in indulgence: nowhere. Where then is it to be found?
In doing what man's nature requires. And how is he to do this? By having principles to govern his impulses and actions. What are these principles? Those of good and evil --- the belief that nothing is good for a human being which does not make him just, self-controlled, brave, and free: and nothing evil which does not make him the opposite of these. (Book 8, Sec 1)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond (Translator) Published 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 180)
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