20. First, do nothing inconsiderately, nor without a purpose.
Second, make your acts refer to nothing else than to a social end.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Twelve
Chapter Subtitle: All those things at which you wish to arrive by a circuitous road, you canst have now, if you dost not refuse them to yourself
Location: Chapter 12, Section 20
Content:
20. First, do nothing inconsiderately, nor without a purpose.
Second, make your acts refer to nothing else than to a social end.