The Complete Guide to Reading Meditations

Meditations XI.38

It is no casual matter, then, said he, that is at stake, but whether we are to be sane or no.87

  • 87.Epictetus’s Discourses i. 22, §§ 17–21; Horace’s Satires ii. 3. 43.

    In the third satire of Horace’s second book, the Stoic convert Damasippus expounds the doctrine that all but the wise are mad.