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The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical
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- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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- Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Meditations. ix. 16.
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