Book II.1
We are made for cooperation, like feet, hands, eyelids; to act against another is contrary to nature.
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From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Rational beings are made for one another; the world is one city, and acting against another rational being is acting against oneself.
Book IV.4
If reason is common, we are fellow-citizens; the universe is, as it were, a state.
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My city and country, so far as I am Antoninus, is Rome; but so far as I am a man, it is the world.Read in Books4Free →
Book VII.13
Rational beings are limbs of one body; severing oneself harms the whole.
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