Two tasks in one line. This maxim-passage joins two disciplines through the shared image of the "lot": to the things (πράγματα) with which you are "co-allotted" (συγκεκλήρωσαι) — adapt yourself (συνάρμοζε); the people (ἄνθρωποι) among whom you have "received your portion" (συνείληχας) — love. The governing discipline is desire (to accept one's lot); the sustaining one is action (to love one's companions in fate).

Adaptation = amor fati. The first verb is συναρμόζειν, "to fit oneself" to the given. This is DOGMAthe love of fate in its active form: not to endure circumstances but to come into concord with them, as a part fits into its groove. Fate has assigned the material; the task is to "lie close" to it.

Love — but truly. The second verb is φίλει (love), with the qualifier ἀληθινῶς — "truly, unfeignedly." The DOGMAsocial nature demands not an imitation of affection but a genuine one: the very people given by fate as one's "circumstance" are also the object of love. The rider "but truly" cuts off hypocritical politeness — Marcus asks of himself not a pose but a real disposition (cf. the reproach of insincere "friends" in 06-30).

Parallels. DOGMAAmor fati — Med. 3.4; 4.31; 05-08 (to accept what is assigned, as prescribed by a physician); DOGMAthe social nature — 06-14; 06-23; the doctrine of loving the "co-allotted." Cf. Med. 7.13 (to love one's fellow-members from nature, not from constraint).