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The Daily Stoic · October 7, 2026 · 2m 31s

BONUS | A Selfish Reason To Be Good

A two-minute bonus reflection on a quote from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, where the emperor argues that acting unjustly harms the perpetrator more than the victim—that wrongdoing is ultimately self-destructive because it corrupts one's own character.

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Injustice Is Self-Destructive
Marcus Aurelius taught that the person who wrongs others actually wrongs themselves, because injustice makes the perpetrator evil internally.

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