“Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I might
meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous,
malicious and unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their ignorance of
true good and evil. But I have seen that the nature of good is what is right,
and the nature of evil what is wrong; and I have reflected that the nature of
the offender himself is akin to my own - not a kinship of blood or seed, but a
sharing in the same mind, the same fragment of divinity. Therefore I cannot be
harmed by any of them, as none will infect me with their wrong. Not can I be
angry with my fellow human being or hate him. We were born for cooperation,
like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So
to work in opposition to one another is against nature: and anger or rejection
is opposition.” -Marcus Aurelius
