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Meditations · Book XII · 8
Book XII · 8

Contemplate the formative principles [forms] of things bare of their coverings; the purposes of actions; consider what pain is, what pleasure is, and death, and fame; who is to himself the cause of his uneasiness; how no man is hindered by another; that everything is opinion.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations XII.8. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.