Meditations VII.26

Does a man do thee wrong? Go to and mark what notion of good and evil was his that did the wrong. Once perceive that and thou wilt feel compassion³² not surprise or anger. For thou hast still thyself either the same notion of good and evil as he or another not unlike. Thou needs must forgive him then.³³ But if thy notions of good and evil are no longer such, all the more easily shalt thou be gracious to him that sees awry.

• 32.Compare ii. 13; x. 30; Herodian i. 4, § 2; Dio’s Roman History 71. 10, § 4.
• 33.See xi. 18, § 4.