“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

— Marcus Aurelius · Wisdom quote

— MARCUS AURELIUS

Emperor · 121 – 180

Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, author of the Meditations.

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