Meditations VI.29

It is a disgrace for the soul to be the first to succumb in that life in which the body does not succumb.³³

• 33.viii. 36. So Marcus himself in a letter to Fronto (the correspondence with him as Caesar, iv. 8): Turpe fuerit diutius vitam corporis quam animi studium ad reciperandam sanitatem posse durare.

  Marcus’s Latin, in translation: “it would be shameful for the body’s life to hold out longer than the mind’s resolve to recover health.”