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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

IX. Repentance is an inward and self-reprehension for the neglect

or omission of somewhat that was profitable. Now whatsoever is good,

is also profltable, and it is the part of an honest virtuous

man to set by it, and to make reckoning of it accordingly.

But never did any honest virtuous man repent of the neglect

or omission of any carnal pleasure: no carnal pleasure then

is either good or profitable.