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“Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain thee either to break thy faith, or to lose thy modesty; to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust after anything, that requireth the secret of walls or veils.”
Meditations, Book 3, Section VIII·121-180 CE

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Marcus Aurelius
マルクス・アウレリウス
121-180 CE · Roman Stoicism
Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher.
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