But the soul itself, that which is subject to fear, to pain, which has completely the power of forming an opinion about these things, will suffer nothing, for it will never deviate+ into such a judgment.
Marcus Aurelius asserts that the soul, through its power of judgment, can remain untouched by fear or pain.
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