Inquire of yourself, as soon as you wake from sleep, whether it will make any difference to you if another does what is just and right.
It will make no difference.
You have not forgotten, I suppose, that those who assume arrogant airs in bestowing their praise or blame on others are such as they are at bed and at board, and you have not forgotten what they do, and what they avoid, and what they pursue, and how they steal and how they rob, not with hands and feet, but with their most valuable part, by means of which there is produced, when a man chooses, fidelity, modesty, truth, law, a good spirit?
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.13
IMAGE: John William Waterhouse, Vanity (1910)
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