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Book IV · 11

Do not have such an opinion of things as he has who does thee wrong, or such as he wishes thee to have, but look at them as they are in truth.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.11. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.