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Meditations · Book X · 14
Book X · 14

To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently, and well pleased with her.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations X.14. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.