"Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn't your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?"-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.15
("등불의 빛이 그 연료가 다할 때까지 빛나고 계속해서 그 빛을 유지합니까? 그렇다면 왜 당신의 진리, 정의, 그리고 절제는 당신이 사라질 때까지 빛나지 말아야 합니까?"-마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 《명상록》, 12.15)
Seneca, repeating Heraclitus, writes that "we mortals are lighted and extinguished." The light of reason suffuses the universe. Whether the wick of your lamp is being lit for the first time, after a long period of darkness, or even right before the proverbial big sleep, it makes no difference.
Here is where you are right now, and it's as good a place as any to let virtue ...
