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Don't let them steal this too.

People will take things from you.

As we talked about recently with Epictetus in his lamp, people will betray you, as Marcus

Realis was by his most trusted general, a videoscasis.

People will lie, they will cheat, they will break the rules, they will blow apart, but

the Romans called the Moss Morium, the old ways.

Which Cato knew all too well.

And this will be painful, it will be costly.

But the one thing you can't allow them to take from you, the one thing you really have

to protect is your belief in your love for those very same people.

In Meditations, Marcus Realis talks about being in the ring with someone who was fighting

dirty.

He says, you can't let them turn you into a dirty fighter or worse drive you from the ring

altogether.

In many places in his writings he comes back to this idea, to not let in humanity drive

him away from humanity, to not give up on people, to not become cynical or bitter, to

not be implicated in the ugliness.

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