On scorpions.......................

 

“It is crazy to want what is impossible,” Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations. “And impossible for the wicked not to do so.” This is what Aesop’s fable about the scorpion and the frog is about. It’s what so much of the ancient literature tries to remind us of. That cruel people do cruel things. That selfish people act selfishly. That destructive people do destructive things.

Yet we don’t listen. We fail to learn the lesson and so we get hurt. The world painfully, painfully shows us the perils of not heeding this basic warning.

The wicked do what wicked people have always done. They are who they are. Stop expecting them to be anything else.

-from today's entry from the Daily Stoic