Marcus Aurelius: “Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the…”

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Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like the man who throws up a ball.

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Marcus Aurelius reflects on nature's comprehensive design, which considers the entire trajectory of things from beginning to end.

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