"To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility.
"But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational."
~ Marcus Aurelius
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So true yet I keep being told that Trump needs to be complimented and flattered in order to get him to do the right thing. The problem is all the people who work for Trump are evil and they are the ones he listens to. No one with an ounce of on integrity is allowed to get near Trump.
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Love this. So very accurate!
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True.
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"Once a bully, always a bully." - Me
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He's perfecting his Benito Mussolini look.
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EVERYTHING TRUMPS DOING IS TO DETER US ALL FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES AND THE FACT THAT HES A PEDOPHILE!!! EPSTEIN FILES=PEDOPHILE EPSTEIN FILES=PEDOPHILE
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I mean, our current madness is bad, but it still isn’t Caligula bad, so yeah, the Stoics are worth the time to read rn regardless.
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Horrible people voted for him because he was horrible. Oh, and cheap eggs
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We never learn.
We've had 1,845 years to learn from Marcus Aurelius and other great minds.
Instead of defying and defeating drumpf’s fascism and his evil thugs, we are lionizing violent thugs, idiots, criminals, cowards, sexual predators, and madmen and putting them in positions of power.
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"But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational."
Clearly Marcus Aurelius never met a MAGA, who thinks their orange dictator will only hurt
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Marcus had it right.
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Been going on a long time
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"Meditations" one of the greatest books of philosophy
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Exactly this. Big fan of old Marcus.
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In other words, you shouldn't be surprised when leopards eat YOUR face.
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Blimey those romans shouldn’t have died out haha wisdom Through the ages They’d kick His ass
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And to NOT hold them accountable for their wrongdoing, is UNCONSCIONABLE!
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"Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good."
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nobel peace prize winner in economics states that "Abolishing the state helps no one, but the powerful."
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It’s almost like history repeating itself. Wow.
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America has lost it's geography.
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This is the perfect quote
