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Creator: Marcus Aurelius
Nationality / cultural background: An English translation is being prepared. The original source remains available.
Work / edition: 1634 translation

Translation: Méric Casaubon · English translation pending

Historical public-domain text. Selected passage; line-end whitespace normalised. No generated quotation.

In the source: THE FIRST BOOK; paragraph 283 in the selected body section

Selected for the Brief on 16 Sep 2026. This date records our selection, rather than when the work was created.