Full Idea
When the lamp has been removed from my sight, and my wife, no stranger now to my habit, has fallen silent, I examine the whole of my day and retrace my actions and words; I hide nothing from myself.
Gist of Idea
Every night I critically review how I have behaved during the day
Source
Seneca the Younger (On Anger (Book 3) [c.60], §36)
Book Reference
Seneca: 'Dialogues and Essays', ed/tr. Davie,John [Penguin 2007], p.47