People
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
— Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Stop describing the ideal and start living it. The speaker is impatient with talk about what a good person ought to be like and wants the reader to simply be that person. It's a push from theory into action, with nothing in between.
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