"You are a product of your thoughts. What you think, you become.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~












It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to...
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