Meditations VIII.49

Say no more to thyself than what the initial impressions report.⁵² This has been told thee, that so and so speaks ill of thee. This has been told thee, but it has not been told thee that thou art harmed.⁵³ I see that my child is ailing. I see it, but I do not see that he is in danger. Keep then ever to first impressions and supplement them not on thy part from within, and nothing⁵⁴ happens to thee. And yet do supplement them with this, that thou art familiar with every possible contingency in the world.

• 52.See iv. 7 etc.
• 53.Yet Capitolinus’s Life of Marcus (xx. § 5) says that Marcus was suae curiosissimus famae; compare the same, xxii. § 6; xxiii. § 7, 9; xxix. 5.

  Capitolinus’s suae curiosissimus famae: “most attentive to his reputation.”

• 54.Compare viii. 28.