Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.


The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius (ed. 1862)

Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a...

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a...

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a...

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a...