From Marcus Aurelius
“It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you—inside or out.
Excerpt From: Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius. “Meditations.”
Book # IV, no. 8
Alternate interpretation?
Marcus Aurelius (Loeb Classical Library)“8. That which does not make a man himself worse than before cannot make his life worse either, nor injure it whether from without or within.”
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