Meditations 11.5

What is thy art? To be good. And how is this accomplished well except by general principles, some about the nature of the universe, and others about the proper constitution of man?

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.5, translated by George Long

What is thy vocation? To be a good man. But how be successful in this save by assured conceptions on the one hand of the Universal Nature and on the other of the special constitution of man?

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.5, translated by C. R. Haines