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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Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. – Charlotte Bronte

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. – Joseph Cannon

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. – Proverb

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