“Begin the morning by saying to thyself, 'I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.'”
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Marcus Aurelius sets out a mental rehearsal for the day in the opening chapter of the second book of the Meditations. The exercise is meant to make friction less costly by recasting other people's behaviour as a kind of error rather than as an insult.
Source: Meditations, Book II