The George Long translation of 1862:
Though we are made especially for the sake of one another, still the ruling power of each of us has its own office, for otherwise my neighbour's wickedness would be my harm. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 8.
Chrystal's 2017 rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742:
How much soever we were formed for the sake of each other, yet the governing part of each of us has its own proper power. Otherwise the vice of another might become my own misery.
Image: Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia by Benjamin West, 1766, now in the Tate Britain in London (PD) courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and the Google Art Project.
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