Meditations X.32

Give no one the right to say of thee with truth that thou art not a sincere, that thou art not a good man, but let anyone that shall form any such an idea of thee be as one that maketh a lie. All this rests with thee. For who is there to hinder thee from being good and sincere⁵²? Resolve then to live no longer if thou be not such.⁵³ For neither doth Reason in that case insist that thou shouldest.

• 52.See viii. 32.
• 53.See v. 29; x. 8, § 2.