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#1 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

#1 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself:

  • The people I deal with today will be Meddling, Ungrateful, Arrogant, Dishonest, Jealous and Surly.

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#2 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

#2 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

  • 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.

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#3 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

#3 Marcus Aurelius: Morning Reminder

  • 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.

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This helps me wake up in the morning and get ready for the day. Great stoic wisdom of Marcus Aurelius.

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