He is a runaway, who flies from social reason; he is blind, who shuts the eyes of understanding; he is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things which are useful for life.
In his private journal, Marcus Aurelius defines various forms of human deficiency, from social disengagement to intellectual blindness and self-sufficiency.
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