4. JanuaryCompassion is the seed of humaneness, shame the seed of what is right. Everyone carries these beginnings within, as the seed carries the tree — they need nourishing, not planting. 27. MarchWorse than suffering injustice is doing it. For the wound of the one who suffers strikes the body — that of the one who does it strikes the soul. 16. AprilWhere there is hatred, let me bring love; where there is hurt, forgiveness. For in giving we receive, in forgiving we are forgiven. 20. AprilWhat you yourself do not wish for, do not do to others either. 1. JuneWith every pleasure: wait. Hold both times before your eyes — the one in which you will enjoy it, and the one in which, afterwards, you regret it and reproach yourself. And against these: how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you have abstained. 2. JulyI kept a little book and each day marked down where I had fallen short of my resolutions. Whoever keeps an honest account of himself finds it harder to lie to himself. 18. AugustSelf-love is the most skilful of all flatterers; it lays a fog over our motives that only those can see through who suspect it in themselves. 27. SeptemberThe mind must be called to account every day. Sextius did so: at the end of the day he asked himself — Which of your ills have you healed today? Which fault have you resisted? In what have you become better? Anger grows milder when it knows it must come before the judge every day. And what sleep follows this review!