Marcus Aurelius: Meditations, Book IV.7
“Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, I have been harmed.”
Reflection
This is not denial of harm — it is an audit of the story layered on top of it. Write the event in plain facts, then the sentence you added. Only one of those is fixed.
Source record
- Author
- Marcus Aurelius
- Original source
- Meditations, Book IV.7
- Original date
- c. 170 AD
- Edition used
- Trans. George Long, 1862 — public domain
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