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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 10.16 (trans. Gregory Hays)

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations, Book 10.16 (trans. Gregory Hays)

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