It is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility, so do not think that pain is an evil. For every judgement and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 8.
Image: A silent greeting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1889, in the Tate National Gallery, London, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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