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Echoes through time May 20, 2019May 15, 2019

Echoes through time: the helmsman of my soul

How is my soul’s helmsman going about his task? For in that lies everything. All else, within my control or beyond it, is dead bones and vapour.

Marcus Aurelius (AD 120 – 180), Meditations (12.33)

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