Meditations
February 19, 2009
“Remember that your directing mind becomes invincible when it withdrawals into its own self-sufficiency, not doing anything it does not wish to do, even if its position is unreasonable. How more more, then, when the judgement it forms is reasoned and deliberate? That is why a mind free from passions is a fortress: people have no stronger place of retreat, and someone taking refuge here is then impregnable. Anyone who has not seen this is short of wisdom: anyone who has seen it and does not take refuge is short of fortune.”
- Marcus Aurelius, 8:48
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