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In a striking passage Matthew Arnold described Marcus Aurelius as ‘perhaps the most beautiful figure in history. He is one of those consoling and hope-inspiring marks, which stand for ever to remind our weak and easily discouraged race how high human goodness and perseverance have once been carried and may be carried again� (Essays in Criticism: First Series [London, 1865]).
‘every man’s mind is god� [12.26
