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Remember this,—that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Remember this,—that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

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. iv. 32.

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Later sculptural depiction by Laurys Gillis, 1737

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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