All that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.
Julian (AD 331-363), Emperor of Rome (355-363)
Oration VI, “To the Uneducated Cynics” (AD 362)
Quoted in T. Page and W. Rouse (eds.), The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. II [tr. W. Wright]. Sometimes attributed to Marcus Aurelius.
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