Wiping — and power over the soul. The exercise of EXERCISEattention in imperative form: "wipe out (ἐξάλειφε) the impressions continually" (cf. 7.29 — Ἐξάλειψον τὴν φαντασίαν, the first of the seven commands). But wiping is not an end in itself; behind it is the formula of claiming power: DOGMA"now it is in my power (νῦν ἐπ’ ἐμοί ἐστιν)" that in this soul there be "no vice (πονηρία), no TERMdesire (ἐπιθυμία), no disturbance at all (ταραχή)."

To see — and to use by worth. The positive part: "looking at all things as they are (βλέπων πάντα ὁποῖά ἐστι), TERMI use each according to its worth (κατ’ ἀξίαν)." Two operations are joined here: the sober seeing of a thing (the bare definition, 8.24) and the exact appraisal of its value — no more and no less than is due. It closes with the call to remember that this "power (ἐξουσία)" is TERM"according to nature" (κατὰ φύσιν): the freedom of the ruling part is not won but only recalled as already one's own (cf. 6.52 — one may hold no opinion; 8.47). The governing discipline is assent (to cleanse the impressions, to appraise by worth), the sustaining one desire (not to admit desire).