Plain
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

All things in the world are always changing. You are changing too, always breaking down in some way. So is the whole world.

It is not your sin, but another person's sin. Why should it trouble you? Let them deal with it — it's their sin.

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

All things that are in the world, are always in the estate of alteration. Thou also art in a perpetual change, yea and under corruption too, in some part: and so is the whole world.

it is not thine, but another man's sin. Why should it trouble thee? Let him look to it, whose sin it is.

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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

Look closely at their minds and thoughts. See what kind of people they really are — these people whose judgment you fear. Look at what they think of themselves.

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Calm Your Mind Human Nature
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

Sift their minds and understandings, and behold what men they be, whom thou dost stand in fear of what they shall judge of thee, what they themselves judge of themselves.

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