Rise above mediocrity
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius IJust dawns, do yourself within you this note: today I stumble with some busybody with a thankless, with a brash, with a malicious, envious, selfish. All these vices came upon them through ignorance of good and evil. But, having observed that the nature of the good is the beautiful, and that evil is awkward, and the condition of the sinner himself is such that it is still my relative, participating, not of my blood or ancestry, but the same intelligence and a particle of divinity, I can not receive reproach of any of them, because none could to stain with infamy. No I can not be angry with my kinsman or hate him, that we were created to help each other, as do the feet, hands, eyelids, the two sets of teeth, the upper and the lower. Acting therefore as adversaries to each other is to go against nature: and is treating someone adversary the fact indignant or away from it.
(In the last ten years of the life of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121 -180), wrote a series of personal reflections that were originally his own escape route as escritura1.)
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