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The Hidden Power of Staying Calm Around Evil

Imagine standing face-to-face with someone who embodies everything you despise: cruelty, manipulation, the deliberate choice to harm others. Most people would feel their blood rise, their breath shorten, and their heart pound with the instinct to strike back. But the Stoics teach us something different, something shocking in its simplicity: you don’t have to give them that power. Marcus Aurelius once wrote, “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” He was not speaking in abstractions. He wrote these words while surrounded by traitors, liars, and men who sought to destroy him. Yet he remained unshaken, not because the world was kind, but because he chose to master his own reactions.