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Meditations 4.27

Meditations 4.27

Reflections on Marcus Aurelius

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Either it is a well-arranged Universe or a chaos huddled together, but still a Universe.

But can a certain order subsist in you, and disorder in the All? And this too, when all things are so separated and diffused, and sympathetic.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 4.27 (tr Long)

The question of order and disorder in life n…

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