For since the universal nature has made rational animals for the sake of one another, to help one another according to their deserts, but in no way to injure one another, he who transgresses her will is clearly guilty of impiety towards the highest divinity.
From his personal reflections, this passage asserts that harming others goes against universal nature's design for rational beings to help each other, thus constituting impiety.
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