If a man is able to show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
— Marcus Aurelius Ancient

Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 6, Section 21

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c. 161-180 AD

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Shocking

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