Book II.1
'Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.' Foundational Stoic exercise (premeditatio malorum).
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From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
One of the most quoted passages: a morning preparation reminding oneself that one will meet meddlers, the ungrateful, and the arrogant, yet none can implicate one in ugliness.
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