“You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying a…”

“You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)”

— Marcus Aurelius

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Title: Wikiquote: Marcus Aurelius
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Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

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Aurelius, Marcus. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Marcus Aurelius. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

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