"But something external will stand in the way."
Nothing will stand in the way of your acting justly and soberly and considerately.
"But perhaps some other active power will be hindered."
Well, but by acquiescing in the hindrance and by being content to transfer your efforts to that which is allowed, another opportunity of action is immediately put before you in place of that which was hindered, and one which will adapt itself to this ordering of which we are speaking.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.32
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