When another does you wrong

Does another do me wrong? Let him look to it. He has his own disposition, his own activity. I now have what the universal nature wills me to have, and I do what my nature now wills me to do.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 5.


Image: Detail of a rather stern looking Vespasian from Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's painting "The Triumph of Titus" courtesy of the Walters Art Museum and Wikimedia Commons.

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