"If you find anything in human life better than justice, truthfulness, self-control, courage… turn to it
with all your heart and enjoy the supreme good that you have found… but if you find all other
things to be trivial and valueless in comparison with virtue give no room to anything else, since
once you turn towards that and divert from your proper path, you will no longer be able without
inner conflict to give the highest honour to that which is properly good. It is not right to set up as a
rival to the rational and social good [virtue] anything alien its nature, such as the praise of the
many or positions of power, wealth or enjoyment of pleasures."
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.6
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