Dream of Scipio and Stoic Paradoxes

nature has given to all a soul, than which nothing is more excellent nor more divine. Yet you cast yourself down and abase? yourself so much that you think there is no difference between yourself and a four-footed beast. Is anything good that does not make the one who possesses it better? For just as each person participates most in the good, so too are they most praiseworthy. Nor is there any good about which the one who possesses it cannot honestly boast. But what good is there in pleasure? Does it make a man better or more praiseworthy? Or does anyone, in obtaining pleasures, exalt himself while boasting even in his own proclamation? Yet if pleasure, which is defended by the advocacy of the many, is not to be counted among good things, and the greater it is, the more it removes the mind from its seat and state, then truly living well and happily is nothing other than living honestly and rightly.

• If anyone is desirous of glory

• The marginalia repeats the phrase "Si quis foris moratur..." (If anyone dwells outside himself...) in a repetitive, nonsensical pattern, likely an artifact of a scribe testing a pen or a stray transcription error.