Meditations 7.45

For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness [of deserting his post].

See Aristophanes, Acharnenses, v. 661.

From the Apologia, c. 16.

From the Apologia, c. 16.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.45, translated by George Long

This, O men of Athens, is the true state of the case: Wherever a man has stationed himself, deeming it the best for him, or has been stationed by his commander, there methinks he ought to stay and run every risk, taking into account neither death nor any thing else save dishonour.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.45, translated by C. R. Haines