Meditations VIII.40

Take away thy opinion³⁸ as to any imagined pain, and thou thyself art set in surest safety. What is ‘thyself’? Reason. But I am not reason. Be it so. At all events let the Reason not cause itself pain, but if any part in thee is amiss, let it form its own opinion about itself.³⁹

• 38.See vii. 10; viii. 47.
• 39.See vii. 33.