"Be not uneasy, discouraged, or out of humour, because practice falls short of precept in... particulars. If you happen to be beaten, come on again, and be glad if most of your acts are worthy of human nature. Love that to which you return, and do not go like a schoolboy to his master with... ill will. ...[Y]ou must apply to philosophy... as those who have sore eyes make use of a good receipt. And when you are thus disposed, you will easily acquiesce in reason, and make your abode with her. ...[P]hilosophy will put you upon nothing but what your nature wishes and calls for. But you are crossing the inclinations of your nature. Is not this the most agreeable? And does not pleasure often deceive us under this pretence? ...[W]hat is ...more delightful than greatness of mind, and generosity, simplicity, equanimity, and piety? And once more, what can be more delightful than prudence? than to be furnished with that faculty of knowledge and understanding which keeps a man from making a false step, and helps him to good fortune in all his business?"
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Marcus Aurelius, ' Book V, 9 (c. AD 161–180) as quoted in The Meditation of Marcus Aurelius (1887) Tr. Jeremy Collier, Rev. Alice Zimmern, p. 72.
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