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Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do
or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem.
Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them.
Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show
off my own self control, but in an honest upright way.
***
When you think you have been injured, apply this rule: If the
community isn't injured by it, neither am I. And if it is, anger
is not the answer. Show the offender where he went wrong. So
other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and
actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature,
what I do by my own.
/Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do
or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem.
Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them.
Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show
off my own self control, but in an honest upright way.
***
When you think you have been injured, apply this rule: If the
community isn't injured by it, neither am I. And if it is, anger
is not the answer. Show the offender where he went wrong. So
other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and
actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature,
what I do by my own.
/Marcus Aurelius - Meditations