M. Aur. Med. 6.35

Meditations 6.35

Author
Marcus Aurelius
Translator
George Long

Meditations

6.35

Marcus Aurelius

translated by George Long

35Dost thou not see how the handicraftsmen accommodate themselves up to a certain point to those who are not skilled in their craft,—nevertheless they cling to the reason [the principles] of their art and do not endure to depart from it? Is it not strange if the architect and the physician shall have more respect to the reason [the principles] of their own arts than man to his own reason, which is common to him and the gods.