What Marcus Aurelius Told Himself Every Morning to Survive Rome

Igor Zanetti via TheCollector:

‘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 cannot tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil. So they have no power to harm me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. I will not be angry with my fellow humans, or hate them. We were born to work together….’

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