Marcus Aurelius: “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

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“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

Marcus Aurelius · Meditations

What it means today

Matching cruelty with cruelty only spreads it. The real win is staying who you meant to be. Retaliation costs you the very thing the other person attacked.

Try this todayIf someone provokes you today, respond with one degree more patience than you actually feel.

Today’s questionWill answering cruelty with cruelty make me more like the person I want to be?

#anger #forbearance #character

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