Apt Matter to Work On

Everything which happens has a relationship either to God or man, and is neither new nor difficult to handle, but usual and apt matter to work on.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 7.


Image: Greek fire deployed by the Byzantine army against  the Arab Fleet, 2nd Arab Siege of Constantinople, 717-718 CE.  Illustration by French artist Christian Jégou.

 

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