You say men cannot admire the sharpness of your wits. So be it, but there are many other things of which you cannot say, that you are not formed for them by Nature.
Show those qualities, then, that are altogether in your power: sincerity, gravity, endurance of labor, aversion to pleasure, contentment with your portion and with few things, benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom from trifling magnanimity.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.5
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