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Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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