The Text
Meditations XII.8
Look at the principles of causation stripped of their husks; at the objective of actions; at what pain is, what pleasure, what death, what fame. See who is to blame for a man’s inner unrest; how no one can be thwarted by another17; that nothing is but what thinking makes it.18
- 17.See v. 34; vii. 16.
- 18.v. 2; viii. 40; xii. 22. Shakespeare’s Hamlet ii. 2. 256.