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 strict terms by the word are ἐπιθυμία, ἀξία, φύσις. The governing discipline is assent (to cleanse the impressions, to appraise by worth), the sustaining one desire (not to admit desire).