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“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, ‘No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.’”

—Marcus Aurelius, //Meditations// 7.15 (tr. [[/content/source-selections#hays_2003|Hays, 2003]])