Marcus Aurelius
Meditations II, trans. George Long, 1862 · Begin the MorningBegin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
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