Meditations VII.7

Blush not to be helped⁸; for thou art bound to carry out the task that is laid upon thee as a soldier to storm the breach. What then, if for very lameness thou canst not mount the ramparts unaided, but canst do this with another’s help?

• 8.x. 12. See saying of Marcus, Capitolinus’s Life of Marcus xxii. 4, quoted below, p. 360.

  Haines’s “p. 360” refers to his appended collection of Marcus’s sayings.