I am ‘the law unto myself’ or (in contemporary idiom) ‘I am my own law’ to the extent that I judge my conduct in a principled way and seek to sustain some coherence in judgement and conduct over time, having regard both to precedent and to principle.

“Let's figure out a time when we can talk next week.” “Okey dokey, Smokey.”

I'll buy the red shirt or the blue shirt, whichever is cheaper.

Second, the list of kinds of sensings that Socrates gave was thought to be an odd one. It included pleasures, pains, desires, and fears, as well as the more familiar examples of sight, hearing, smell, and the sensings of cold and of heat.