Meditations 7.1

Reflections on Marcus Aurelius

What is badness? It is that which you have often seen.

And on the occasion of everything that happens, keep this in mind, that it is that which you have often seen.

Everywhere, up and down, you will find the same things, with which the old histories are filled, those of the middle ages and those of our own day, with which cities and houses are filled no…