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It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people’s faults, which is impossible.

It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people’s faults, which is impossible.

Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Approximate author period: c. 150 AD · classical
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 130; printed byline: Marcus Aurelius; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Later sculptural depiction by Laurys Gillis, 1737

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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