According to Marcus Aurelius in the Meditations, human misery and unhappiness are rooted in

a. living under a tyrannical government
b. excessive love of mankind
c. mankind’s perceptions of things, not in the nature of things.
d. In the nature of things, not in mankind’s perceptions of things


Answer: c. mankind’s perceptions of things, not in the nature of things.

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