5. What is your art?
And how is this accomplished well except by general principles, some about the nature of the universe, and others about the proper constitution of man?
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Eleven
Chapter Subtitle: These are the properties of the rational soul: it sees itself, analyses itself, and makes itself such as it chooses; the fruit which it bears itself enjoys- for the fruits of plants and that in animals which corresponds to fruits others enjoy- it obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed.
Location: Chapter 11, Section 5
Content:
5. What is your art?
To be good.
And how is this accomplished well except by general principles, some about the nature of the universe, and others about the proper constitution of man?