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Meditations · Book IX · 8
Book IX · 8

Among the animals which have not reason one life is distributed; but among reasonable animals one intelligent soul is distributed: just as there is one earth of all things which are of an earthly nature, and we see by one light, and breathe one air, all of us that have the faculty of vision and all that have life.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IX.8. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.