You will set little value on pleasing song and dancing and the pancratium, if you will distribute the melody of the voice into its several sounds, and ask yourself as to each, if you are mastered by this; for you will be prevented by shame from confessing it.
And in the matter of dancing, if at each movement and attitude you will do the same; and the like also in the matter of the pancratium.
In all things, then, except virtue and the acts of virtue, remember to apply yourself to their several parts, and by this division to come to value them little: and apply this rule also to your whole life.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.2
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