"Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you'll love what you've been allotted, for nature brought you both to each other. Justice so that you'll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you'll act only as the law and value of things require."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.1
("과거는 뒤로 하고, 위대한 계획에 미래를 맡기고, 대신 오직 현재를 경외와 정의에 올바르게 인도하십시오. 경외심은 자연이 여러분을 서로에게 가져다준 것이므로 여러분에게 주어진 것을 사랑할 수 있도록 합니다. 정의는 진실을 회피하지 않고 자유롭게 말하게 하며, 사물의 법과 가치를 요구하는 대로 행동하게 합니다." - 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 명상록 12.1)
Aulus Gellius relates that Epictetus once said, "If anyone would take two words to heart and take pains to govern and watch over themselves by them, they will live an impeccable and immensely tranquil life. The two words are: persist and resist." That's great advice. But what principles should determine what we persist in and what we ought to resist?
Marcus supplies that answer: reverence and justice. In other...
