Do not be diverted by blame

Judge every word and deed which are according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows from any people.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 5.

Image: The debate of Socrates and Aspasia, 1800, by Nicolas-André Monsiau now in the collections of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.


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