Meditations, 4.27

Marcus Aurelius  translated by George Long

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27Either it is a well arranged universe[23] or a chaos huddled together, but still a universe. But can a certain order subsist in thee, and disorder in the All? And this too when all things are so separated and diffused and sympathetic.

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Notes

  • [23] Antoninus here uses the word κόσμος both in the sense of the Universe and of Order; and it is difficult to express his meaning.