Meditation 7.24
Marcus AureliusMeditationsBook 7.24
24. A scowl on the face is eminently against Nature and, whenever it is often repeated, the expression dies or is at last extinguished, so that it loses the power to light up again. . . . Try to understand this very point that it is against Reason. For if even the consciousness of doing wrong has gone, what ground for living is left?