"Failure to read what is happening in..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.
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“Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.”
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
“Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.”
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“The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.”
“If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”
“We are all wise for other people, none for himself.”