"Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbours, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming - in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the Ruler within you - means a loss of opportunity for some other task."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Three
Here, almost two-thousand years ago, MA predicts the corrupting influence of Facebook.
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