Why not act rather than complain?

If thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain? Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 8.



Images: Michelangelo's Marcus Junius Brutus at the Bargello Palace in Florence, Italy, 1538, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Miguel Hermoso Cuesta.

 

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