On the recordJanuary 1, 175
The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess, and, as it were, a tumor on the universe, so far as it can.
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Marcus Aurelius
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From his personal reflections, this passage describes the first way the human soul harms itself by separating from the universal order.
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