Book, Chapter

1      I, 3     |      ground that they are "a good thing." What, however, is better
2      I, 3     |           if I have a fear of the thing which is permitted, (the
3      I, 3     |         permitted, (the permitted thing) has some suspicion attaching
4      I, 3     |     dissuasion from the lowest. A thing is not "good" merely because
5      I, 6     |         after. A hard and arduous thing enough, surely, is the continence
6     II, 1intro|  widowhood, the more pardonable a thing it seems if it be not persevered
7     II, 5     |         work. He who "endures" (a thing) cannot be ignorant of it;
8     II, 7     | spontaneously, is (quite) another thing. Things which are not pleasing
9     II, 8     |           rich man is a difficult thing (to find) in the house of