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We ought to observe also that even the things which follow after the things which are produced according to nature contain something pleasing and attractive. For instance, when bread is baked some parts are split at the surface, and these parts which thus open, and have a certain fashion contrary to the purpose of the bakers art, are beautiful in a manner, and in a peculiar way excite a desire for eating. Though they are far from being beautiful, if a man should examine them severally- still, because they are consequent upon the things which are formed by nature, help to adorn them, and they please the mind; so that if a man should have a feeling and deeper insight with respect to the things which are produced in the universe, there is hardly one of those which follow by way of consequence which will not seem to him to be in a manner disposed so as to give pleasure. And many such things will present themselves, not pleasing to every man, but to him only who has become truly familiar with nature and her works. -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book III
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:03:51 +0000

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