Meditations V.31

How hast thou borne thyself heretofore towards Gods, parents, brothers, wife, children, teachers, tutors, friends, relations, household? Canst thou say truly of them all to this day, Doing to no man wrong, nor speaking aught that is evil?⁶³

And call to mind all that thou hast passed through, all thou hast found strength to bear; that the story of thy life is now full-told and thy service is ending; and how many beautiful sights thou hast seen, how many pleasures and pains thou hast disregarded, forgone what ambitions, and repaid with kindness how much unkindness.⁶⁴

• 63.Homer’s Odyssey iv. 690.

  In Odyssey iv. 690 Penelope says of Odysseus that he never did or said anything unjust to anyone.

• 64.x. 36. There is no Pharisaism here, as some have most unwarrantably asserted.