Meditations VI.11

When forced, as it seems, by thine environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into thy self, staying in discord no longer than thou must. By constant recurrence to the harmony,¹² thou wilt gain more command over it.

• 12.Compare Dio Chrysostom’s Orations xxxii. 676, Reiske’s edition: ἔξω τῆς ἁρμονίας τῆς κατὰ φύσιν.

  Dio Chrysostom’s thirty-second oration is addressed to the people of Alexandria; the Greek, in translation: “outside the harmony that accords with nature.”