Plain
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

When a stone is thrown up and falls back down, the fall doesn't hurt it. And when it rises up, that doesn't help it either.

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Freedom & Control Calm Your Mind
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

To the stone that is cast up, when it comes down it is no hurt unto it; as neither benefit, when it doth ascend.

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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Good and evil don't come from what you feel, but from what you do. The same is true for a reasonable and caring person — their true worth isn't in their emotions, but in their actions.

Meditations, Book 9, Section 14 Book 9 · 21 of 60
Doing The Right Thing Knowing Yourself
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

As virtue and wickedness consist not in passion, but in action; so neither doth the true good or evil of a reasonable charitable man consist in passion, but in operation and action.

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