Those which relate to good and bad: the belief that there is nothing good for man which does not make him just, temperate, manly, free; and that there is nothing bad which does not do the contrary to what has been mentioned.
Marcus Aurelius defines good and bad for humanity through the lens of virtues, asserting that true good fosters justice, temperance, manliness, and freedom.
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But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
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