"If it is not right, do not do it" — Marcus Aurelius

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

Meditations, Book XII, 17

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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

Discourses, Book 1

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Discourses, Book 1