Plain
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Look deeply into how other people think when you deal with them. Also make your own thoughts clear and open to others.

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Human Nature Knowing Yourself
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

To pierce and penetrate into the estate of every one's understanding that thou hast to do with: as also to make the estate of thine own open, and penetrable to any other.

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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

The mind's movement is not like an arrow's flight. When the mind is careful and thoughtful, turning many ways to examine something closely, it still reaches its target just as well as when it moves without such care.

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Knowing Yourself Calm Your Mind
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

The motion of the mind is not as the motion of a dart. For the mind when it is wary and cautelous, and by way of diligent circumspection turneth herself many ways, may then as well be said to go straight on to the object, as when it useth no such circumspection.

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