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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius
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The Eternal City
Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
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Marcus Annius Verus
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