Suppose that it has been reported to you that a certain person speaks ill of you. This has been reported; but that you have been injured, that has not been reported.
I see that my child is sick. I do see; but that he is in danger, I do not see.
Thus then always abide by the first appearances, and add nothing yourself from within, and then nothing happens to you.
Or rather add something like a man who knows everything that happens in the world.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.49
IMAGE: Eugene de Blaas, The Friendly Gossips (1901)
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