Have principles ready for the understanding

 As physicians have always their instruments and knives ready for cases which suddenly require their skill, so do thou have principles ready for the understanding of things divine and human.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations. Book 3.



Image: Hippocrates refusing the gifts of Emperor Artaxerxes by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1792, Public domain


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