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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (c. 121-180)

“Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes torpor, or stupid sloth: this is thy daily slavery.”

  • From the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book X, meditation IX, (Xist Publishing edition, 2015).

 

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