Anxiety Quote by Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.”   Aurelius”

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Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

— Marcus Aurelius

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