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Aurelius, Meditations 5.3: Think thyself fit and worthy to speak, or to do anything that is according to...
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Think thyself fit and worthy to speak, or to do anything that is according to nature, and let not the reproach, or report of some that may ensue upon it, ever deter thee. If it be right and honest to be spoken or done, undervalue not thyself so much, as to be discouraged from it. As for them, they have their own rational over-ruling part, and their own proper inclination: which thou must not stand and look about to take notice of, but go on straight, whither both thine own particular, and the common nature do lead thee; and the way of both these, is but one.
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 5.21: To live with the Gods.
- same section → Aurelius, Meditations 2.8: Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so proj...
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