Meditations, 4.51

Marcus Aurelius  translated by George Long

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51Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

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