“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”
Marcus Aurelius was Emperor of Rome — the most powerful man in the world by every external measure — and yet he spent his private journal asking himself how to remain unmoved when the world crashed against him. He wrote this passage from a military camp on the Danube frontier, surrounded by war, plague, and political betrayal.
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