Meditations XI.4

Have I done some social act? Well, I am amply rewarded.¹³ Keep this truth ever ready to turn to, and in no wise slacken thine efforts.

• 13.vii. 13, 73; ix. 42, § 5; compare Proverbs xi. 17: τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ ἀγαθὸν ποιεῖ ἀνὴρ ἐλεήμων.

  Proverbs 11:17 has “The merciful man doeth good to his own soul” (King James); Haines quotes the Greek of the Septuagint.