Meditations VII.63

Every soul, says Plato, is reft of truth against its will.⁷⁶ Therefore it is the same also with justice and temperance and lovingkindness and every like quality. It is essential to keep this ever in mind, for it will make thee gentler towards all.⁷⁷

• 76.Quoted by Epictetus (Discourses i. 63, 28 § 4) as from Plato (see Plato’s Sophist 238 C; Republic iii. 412); viii. 14; x. 30; xi. 18, § 3.
• 77.The same word is used of Marcus by Galen (Kühn’s edition, volume 12 page 17); Athenagoras’s Apology 1. 1; Lucian’s The Passing of Peregrinus 17; and Aristides, To the King §§ 105, 112.

  The word is praos, “gentle,” from which Marcus’s praoteros, “gentler,” is formed. Lucian’s The Passing of Peregrinus is his satirical account of the Cynic Peregrinus, who burned himself to death at the Olympic Games.