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Often appears with: temperance and self-mastery · social duty · justice as a virtue · justice · avoid empty fame · ambition and the love of glory
Usually: reflection (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
Marcus Aurelius advises giving up anxiety about appearing a philosopher, living according to nature’s demands, judging each action’s moral worth, and focusing on justice, modesty, and social duty rather than reputation.
nature demands, do that without turning aside; and speak as it seems to thee most just, only let it be with a good disposition and with modesty and without hypocrisy. 6. The nature of the universal has this work to do,--to remove to that place the things which are in this, to change them, to take, them away hence, and to carry them there. All things are change, yet we need not fear anything new. All things are famil…