“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.”

—  Marcus Aurelius , book Meditations

VII, 37
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII

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