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Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher.

“Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.”

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Meditations, Book II, §1 (George Long translation, 1862).

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

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Meditations, Book X, §16 (George Long translation, 1862).

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