Below is the passage as it appears on an authoritative online text (lexundria), which marks it as “Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.3.1.” The passage reads:
'Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, seashores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquillity; and I affirm that tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.'[1]
This passage is found in Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Book IV, Section 3 (as indicated by the header “4.3.1” on lexundria), and it is made available in full on sites such as Wikisource, Perseus, or MIT Classics if you wish to compare with another authoritative text source[1].
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