Book VII.54
Everywhere and always it is in your power: piously to accept the present, justly to deal with people, and methodically to examine impressions.
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From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus internalizes Epictetus's three topoi: correct judgments (assent), right impulses (action), and right desires aligned with nature.
Book VIII.7
Every nature is content when it goes well; for rational nature this is assenting only to truth and acting only for the common good.
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Concise formulation: present judgment grounded in understanding; present action directed at common good; present disposition content with all that befalls.
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