“Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”
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“It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
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Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 71
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