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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself - College of Stoic Philosophers

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BOOK IX<br />

DUCUNT VOLENTEM FATA, NOLENTEM TRAHUNT. Seiieca<br />

To be unjust is <strong>to</strong> sin. By<br />

beings<br />

Nature rational 1<br />

have been constituted for one another's<br />

sake, each <strong>to</strong> help each according <strong>to</strong> its worth,<br />

and in no wise <strong>to</strong> hurt : and<br />

he who transgresses<br />

the will <strong>of</strong> Nature, sins <strong>to</strong> wit, against the<br />

primal deity.<br />

And <strong>to</strong> lie is <strong>to</strong> sin against the same godhead.<br />

For Nature is the nature <strong>of</strong> all things that are ;<br />

and things that are have union with all things<br />

from the beginning. Truth is indeed one name<br />

for Nature, the first cause <strong>of</strong> all things true. The<br />

wilful liar sins in that he deceives and does un-<br />

justly ; the unwitting,<br />

in that he is at variance<br />

with Nature, disordering and combating the order<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Universe. For he who goes counter <strong>to</strong> the

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