Heed your own mind. Marcus Aurelius 6.35
Marcus
exhorts himself to remain true to his mind, to note and solicit its
judgments with respect. A good person cannot live well by ignoring or
despising his own mind.
Οὐχ
ὁρᾷς πῶς οἱ βάναυσοι τεχνῖται
ἁρμόζονται μὲν μέχρι τινὸς πρὸς τοὺς
ἰδιώτας, οὐδὲν ἧσσον μέντοι ἀντέχονται
τοῦ λόγου τῆς τέχνης καὶ τούτου
ἀποστῆναι οὐχ ὑπομένουσιν; οὐ δεινὸν
εἰ ὁ ἀρχιτέκτων καὶ ὁ ἰατρὸς μᾶλλον
αἰδέσονται τὸν τῆς ἰδίας τέχνης λόγον
ἢ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τὸν ἑαυτοῦ, ὃς αὐτῷ
κοινός ἐστι πρὸς τοὺς θεούς;
Don't
you see how unthinking technicians render themselves as near to
idiots as it is possible for them to be, refusing to grasp the
rational order of their craft and hastening rather to get away from
it as quickly as they can? Terrible as it is for an architect or a
doctor to be ashamed of the order that belongs properly to building
or medicine, is it not worse for a man to despise his own indwelling
order, the rational faculty that gives him common cause with gods?