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Book XII · 17

If it is not right, do not do it: if it is not true, do not say it. [For let thy efforts be—]4

If not meet, do it not: if not true, say it not. For let thine impulse be in thy own power.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations XII.17. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.