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Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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