“For there is no veil over a star.”Marcus Aurelius · Quote Phone Case
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Book XI, section 27 is two sentences long. The first sends you outside at daybreak, the way the Pythagoreans went. The second is this one.
In your hand a hundred times a day, saying it straight.
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“For there is no veil over a star.”Marcus Aurelius · Quote Phone Case
You typed a careful reply, then deleted it. You wrote the honest one instead and hit send.
Book XI, section 27 is two sentences long. The first sends you outside at daybreak, the way the Pythagoreans went. The second is this one.
In your hand a hundred times a day, saying it straight.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations XI.27, tr. George Long, 1862.
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