Meditations VIII.16

Remember that neither a change of mind nor a willingness to be set right by others¹³ is inconsistent with true freedom of will. For thine alone is the active effort that effects its purpose in accordance with thy impulse and judgment, aye and thy intelligence also.

• 13.Compare vi. 30; vii. 7. Compare Capitolinus’s Life of Marcus xxii. 4: “Aequius est ut ego tot talium amicorum consilium sequar, quam ut tot tales amici meam unius voluntatem sequantur”; Justinian’s Digest 37. 14. 17.

  The Latin, in translation: “it is fairer that I should follow the advice of so many such friends than that so many such friends should follow my will alone.”