“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal
with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous
and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.
But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have
recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of
the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of
the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in
ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born
to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth,
upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at
someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”
―
Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations
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