(April 16, 2019 at 7:29 am)Belaqua Wrote: XII. Whatever another person does or says, you must be good; not for the other person's sake, but for the sake of your own nature. As if either gold, or the emerald, or purple, should be continually saying to themselves: "Whatever another person does or says, I must still be an emerald, and I must keep my color."
-- Marcus Aurelias
Sod that Marcus. Doormats never keep their colour.