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Aurelius, Meditations 2.3: Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time for thee to...
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Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time for thee to respect thyself, will be at an end. Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect, thou dost make thy happiness to consist in the souls, and conceits of other men.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_02_iii
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