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Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Whosoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whosoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Evil, Doe, Injustice
"Meditations".

Nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Nature, Evil
Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1912). “The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius”

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Pain, Evil, Sin

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Marcus Aurelius
Evil, Way, Found

He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

Marcus Aurelius
Reality, Evil, Fear Of Death
"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (58), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But to go away from among men, if there are gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed they do not exist, or if they have no concern about human affairs, what is it to me to live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But Gods there are, undoubtedly, and they regard human affairs; and have put it wholly in our power, that we should not fall into what is truly evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Fall, Men, Evil
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II,

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Marcus Aurelius
Smart, Two, Evil

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like these neither elevate nor degrade; and therefore they are no more good than they are evil.

Marcus Aurelius
Pain, Men, Evil
"Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book II, 11,

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Marcus Aurelius
Evil, Causes, Doe
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.60, Enhanced Media Publishing

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.

Marcus Aurelius
Men, Evil, Should
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.29, Enhanced Media Publishing

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