“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
XII, 17
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
Context: If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be
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