FROM: A future commissioned officer in the USMC (formerly known on this site as Agent, Call Me)
TO: The World in general
SUBJ: Opening Statements
Peace on Earth to men of good will. All others stand by.
From MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are OBSTRUCTIONS."
Stultum Hominum Viderum Verum Stulte
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