July 18th Reading from The Daily Stoic (Round 2) - Each the Master of Their Own Domain

"My reasoned choice is as indifferent to the reasoned choice of my neighbor, as to his breath and body. However much as we've been made for cooperation, the ruling reason in each of us is master of its own affairs. If this weren't the case, the evil in someone else would become my harm, and God didn't mean for someone else to control my misfortune."

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.56