Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus · Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
34. Thou canst pass thy life in an equable flow of happiness, if thou
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canst go by the right way, and think and act in the right way. These two things are common both to the soul of God and to the soul of man, and to the soul of every rational being: not to be hindered by another; and to hold good to consist in the disposition to justice and the practice of it, and in this to let thy desire find its termination.
35. If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it, and what is the harm to the common weal?
