Meditations, 7.48

Marcus Aurelius  translated by George Long

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48This is a fine saying of Plato:[38] That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them in their assemblies, armies, agricultural labours, marriages, treaties, births, deaths, noise of the courts of justice, desert places, various nations of barbarians, feasts, lamentations, markets, a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.

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Notes

  • [38] It is not in the extant writings of Plato.