“Meditations” Book VII: Passage XXXII

Thou must use thyself also to keep thy body fixed and steady; free from all loose fluctuant either motion, or posture.

And as upon thy face and looks, thy mind hath easily power over them to keep them to that which is grave and decent; so let it challenge the same power over the whole body also.

But so observe all things in this kind, as that it be without any manner of affectation.

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