Quote by Marcus Aurelius
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now. – Marcus Aurelius

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If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. – Bible

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