“My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.”
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“That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant—the act of a tyrant.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
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XI, 18
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book XI
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