... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.
Marcus AureliusIt is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
Marcus AureliusAnd thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus AureliusMen despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.
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