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Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker recommends preparing each morning for meeting difficult people: nosy, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious and uncharitable. Their faults are explained as products of ignorance about what is truly good and bad. The advice frames expectation and understanding as a way to meet unpleasantness calmly.
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