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By Marcus Aurelius
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
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- The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (translated by George Long), Book II, section 1
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- Translated by George Long; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #15877
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From the Meditations (Marcus Aurelius's private notebook, written in Greek, probably in the 170s), Book II, section 1, in George Long's English translation. Marcus Aurelius wrote in Greek, so this is the translator's wording.