"Try to persuade them; and act even against their will, whenever the principle of justice
leads you to do so. But if someone uses force to resist you, change your approach to
accepting it and not being hurt, and use the setback to express another virtue.
Remember too that your motive was formed with reservation and that you were not
aiming at the impossible. At what then? A motive formed with reservation. But you
have achieved this; what we proposed to ourselves is actually happening."
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.50
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