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Aurelius, Meditations 10.32: What a subject, and what a course of life is it, that thou doest so much desi...
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What a subject, and what a course of life is it, that thou doest so much desire to be rid of. For all these things, what are they, but fit objects for an understanding, that beholdeth everything according to its true nature, to exercise itself upon? Be patient, therefore, until that (as a strong stomach that turns all things into his own nature; and as a great fire that turneth in flame and light, whatsoever thou doest cast into it) thou have made these things also familiar, and as it were natural unto thee.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_10_xxxii
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