Today is the Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher Marcus Aurelius' birthday. I've loved his Meditations since I read it for a humanities course. So in his honor, I'm going to do a bit of bibliomancy. I'll open the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius at a random page, and record what comes of it.

"If the choice is yours, why do the thing? If another's, where are you to lay the blame for it? On gods? On atoms? Either would be insanity. All thoughts of blame are out of place. If you can, correct the offender, if not, correct the offence; if that too is impossible, what is the point of recriminations? Nothing is worth doing pointlessly."

Book Eight, Selection 17.