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Aurelius, Meditations 6.17: Who can choose but wonder at them?
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Who can choose but wonder at them? They will not speak well of them that are at the same time with them, and live with them; yet they themselves are very ambitious, that they that shall follow, whom they have never seen, nor shall ever see, should speak well of them. As if a man should grieve that he hath not been commended by them, that lived before him.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_06_xvii
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