When you wake in the morning, tell yourself that the people you will meet today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil. I know that the wrongdoer is my brother — not by blood, but by mind and share of the divine. So none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in what is ugly. I cannot be angry with my brother or hate him. We are born for cooperation, like feet, hands, eyelids, the rows of upper and lower teeth. To work against one another is against nature. To be angry or to turn away is to work against nature.
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No one tires of receiving what is useful. To act according to nature is useful. So do not tire of acting usefully. When you wake in the morning, tell yourself
Whether you find a free scanned copy from 1920, buy the $10 ebook, or borrow a dog-eared paperback from a library, the value lies not in the format but in the action . Read one line. Apply it today. Write a note to yourself. I know that the wrongdoer is my brother
Written from a cold military tent, Marcus scolds himself for laziness. He compares man to a fig tree: "Are you doing your job? Leave the reward to nature."