22. Attend to the matter which is before you whether it is an opinion or an act or a word.
You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
Book: Meditations
Subtitle: The classic from Marcus Aurelius.
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Chapter: Book Eight
Chapter Subtitle: This reflection also tends to the removal of the desire of empty fame, that it is no longer in your power to have lived the whole of your life, or at least your life from your youth upwards, like a philosopher; but both to many others and to yourself it is plain that you art far from philosophy.
Location: Chapter 8, Section 22
Content:
22. Attend to the matter which is before you whether it is an opinion or an act or a word.
You suffer this justly: for you choose rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.