Marcus Aurelius Quote

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.


VII, 37 - Meditations (c. 161–180 CE) - Book VII


It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated...

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated...

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated...

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated...