16. Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Four
Chapter Subtitle: That which rules within, when it is according to nature, is so affected with respect to the events which happen, that it always easily adapts itself to that which is and is presented to it.
Location: Chapter 4, Section 16
Content:
16. Within ten days you will seem a god to those to whom you are now a beast and an ape, if you will return to your principles and the worship of reason.