Principles can only lose their vitality when the first impressions from which they derive have sunk in to extinction; and it is for you to keep fanning these continually in to fresh flame. I am well able to form the right impression of a thing; and given this ability, there is no need to disquiet myself. (As for things that are beyond my understanding, they are no concern of understanding.) Once learn this, and you stand erect. A new life lies within your grasp. You have only to see things once more in the light of your first and earlier vision, and life begins anew.
Marcus Aurelius. ‘Meditations.’ 7:2.
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