Remember that the ruling faculty is invincible, when once it rallies, if it does nothing which it does not choose to do, even if it resist from mere obstinacy. How much more then when its judgment is rational and made with deliberation. Therefore the mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and be impregnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man; but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, pg 88
I like that passage from the Meditations very much. Would you let me know which translation you are using, please? I think it's a revised version of George Long's, but I'd love to know which one exactly. Cheers, Daniel (dd.pellerin@gmail.com)
ReplyDelete