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   1 1 |          Verus I learned good morals and the government~of my temper.~
   2 1 |         temper.~ From the reputation and remembrance of my father,
   3 1 |    remembrance of my father, modesty and a~manly character.~ From
   4 1 |                From my mother, piety and beneficence, and abstinence,
   5 1 |               piety and beneficence, and abstinence, not only from~
   6 1 |             even from evil thoughts; and further, simplicity in my~
   7 1 |           frequented public schools,~and to have had good teachers
   8 1 |           had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things~
   9 1 |         learned~endurance of labour, and to want little, and to work
  10 1 |          labour, and to want little, and to work with my own~hands,
  11 1 |              work with my own~hands, and not to meddle with other
  12 1 |              other people's affairs, and not to be~ready to listen
  13 1 |        myself about trifling things, and not to~give credit to what
  14 1 |              said by miracle-workers and jugglers about~incantations
  15 1 |          jugglers about~incantations and the driving away of daemons
  16 1 |              driving away of daemons and such things; and~not to
  17 1 |             daemons and such things; and~not to breed quails for
  18 1 |         passionately~to such things; and to endure freedom of speech;
  19 1 |            endure freedom of speech; and to have become~intimate
  20 1 |            intimate with philosophy; and to have been a hearer, first
  21 1 |           Bacchius, then of Tandasis and Marcianus; and to have written~
  22 1 |              Tandasis and Marcianus; and to have written~dialogues
  23 1 |       written~dialogues in my youth; and to have desired a plank
  24 1 |             have desired a plank bed and skin, and~whatever else
  25 1 |        desired a plank bed and skin, and~whatever else of the kind
  26 1 |       character required~improvement and discipline; and from him
  27 1 |          improvement and discipline; and from him I learned not to
  28 1 |             order to make a display; and to abstain from~rhetoric,
  29 1 |            to abstain from~rhetoric, and poetry, and fine writing;
  30 1 |           from~rhetoric, and poetry, and fine writing; and not to
  31 1 |            poetry, and fine writing; and not to walk about in the~
  32 1 |            other things of the kind; and~to write my letters with
  33 1 |          from Sinuessa to my mother; and with respect to those who
  34 1 |              disposed to be~pacified and reconciled, as soon as they
  35 1 |          readiness to~be reconciled; and to read carefully, and not
  36 1 |               and to read carefully, and not to be satisfied with
  37 1 |             those who talk overmuch; and I am indebted to him for
  38 1 |              learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness~of
  39 1 |   undeviating steadiness~of purpose; and to look to nothing else,
  40 1 |            moment, except~to reason; and to be always the same, in
  41 1 |              of the loss of a child, and in long illness; and to
  42 1 |          child, and in long illness; and to see~clearly in a living
  43 1 |            can be both most~resolute and yielding, and not peevish
  44 1 |          most~resolute and yielding, and not peevish in giving his
  45 1 |              giving his instruction;~and to have had before my eyes
  46 1 |            considered his~experience and his skill in expounding
  47 1 |              smallest of his merits; and from him I learned how to
  48 1 |              benevolent disposition, and the example of a family~
  49 1 |       governed in a fatherly manner, and the idea of living conformably
  50 1 |        living conformably to~nature; and gravity without affectation,
  51 1 |         gravity without affectation, and to look carefully after~
  52 1 |            the interests of friends, and to tolerate ignorant persons,
  53 1 |           tolerate ignorant persons, and~those who form opinions
  54 1 |         agreeable than any flattery; and at the same time he was
  55 1 |             who associated with him: and he had the~faculty both
  56 1 |          faculty both of discovering and ordering, in an intelligent
  57 1 |          ordering, in an intelligent and~methodical way, the principles
  58 1 |       principles necessary for life; and he never showed~anger or
  59 1 |          entirely free from passion, and~also most affectionate;
  60 1 |              also most affectionate; and he could express approbation
  61 1 |   approbation without noisy~display, and he possessed much knowledge
  62 1 |          refrain from fault-finding, and~not in a reproachful way
  63 1 |             ought to have been used, and in~the way of answer or
  64 1 |        learned to observe what envy, and duplicity, and~hypocrisy
  65 1 |            what envy, and duplicity, and~hypocrisy are in a tyrant,
  66 1 |           hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among
  67 1 |            to his usual disposition; and to be ready to speak well
  68 1 |              is reported of Domitius and Athenodotus; and to love
  69 1 |            Domitius and Athenodotus; and to love my children~truly.~
  70 1 |             Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to~love
  71 1 |              kin, and to love truth, and to~love justice; and through
  72 1 |          truth, and to~love justice; and through him I learned to
  73 1 |       Helvidius,~Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the
  74 1 |          with regard~to equal rights and equal freedom of speech,
  75 1 |             equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a~kingly government
  76 1 |            from him also consistency and undeviating~steadiness in
  77 1 |            my regard for philosophy; and a disposition to do~good,
  78 1 |              disposition to do~good, and to give to others readily,
  79 1 |              give to others readily, and to cherish good hopes, and
  80 1 |           and to cherish good hopes, and to~believe that I am loved
  81 1 |              am loved by my friends; and in him I observed no~concealment
  82 1 |             those whom he condemned,~and that his friends had no
  83 1 |             learned self-government, and not to be led aside by~anything;
  84 1 |            be led aside by~anything; and cheerfulness in all circumstances,
  85 1 |               as well as in~illness; and a just admixture in the
  86 1 |         moral character of sweetness~and dignity, and to do what
  87 1 |            of sweetness~and dignity, and to do what was set before
  88 1 |              he thought as he spoke, and that~in all that he did
  89 1 |         never had any bad intention; and he never showed~amazement
  90 1 |            he never showed~amazement and surprise, and was never
  91 1 |              amazement and surprise, and was never in a hurry, and
  92 1 |            and was never in a hurry, and never put off~doing a thing,
  93 1 |              do acts of beneficence,~and was ready to forgive, and
  94 1 |            and was ready to forgive, and was free from all falsehood;
  95 1 |             free from all falsehood; and he~presented the appearance
  96 1 |         observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable~resolution
  97 1 |              after due~deliberation; and no vainglory in those things
  98 1 |              which men call honours;~and a love of labour and perseverance;
  99 1 |        honours;~and a love of labour and perseverance; and a readiness
 100 1 |             labour and perseverance; and a readiness to listen to~
 101 1 |         propose for the common weal; and undeviating~firmness in
 102 1 |            according to his deserts; and a~knowledge derived from
 103 1 |        occasions for vigorous action~and for remission. And I observed
 104 1 |            action~and for remission. And I observed that he had overcome
 105 1 |       overcome all passion for~boys; and he considered himself no
 106 1 |              than any other citizen; and he~released his friends
 107 1 |       necessity when he went abroad, and those who had~failed to
 108 1 |             matters of deliberation, and his persistency, and that
 109 1 |   deliberation, and his persistency, and that he never~stopped his
 110 1 |            first present themselves; and that his disposition was
 111 1 |             was to keep~his friends, and not to be soon tired of
 112 1 |        extravagant in his affection; and to be satisfied on all occasions,~
 113 1 |          satisfied on all occasions,~and cheerful; and to foresee
 114 1 |             occasions,~and cheerful; and to foresee things a long
 115 1 |       foresee things a long way off, and to provide for~the smallest
 116 1 |            smallest without display; and to check immediately popular~
 117 1 |         immediately popular~applause and all flattery; and to be
 118 1 |           applause and all flattery; and to be ever watchful over
 119 1 |        administration of the empire, and to be a~good manager of
 120 1 |          manager of the expenditure, and patiently to endure the
 121 1 |             he got for such conduct; and he was neither superstitious
 122 1 |        showed sobriety~in all things and firmness, and never any
 123 1 |             all things and firmness, and never any mean thoughts
 124 1 |         action, nor~love of novelty. And the things which conduce
 125 1 |            to the~commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an
 126 1 |            he~used without arrogance and without excusing himself;
 127 1 |            them without affectation, and when he had them~not, he
 128 1 |               able to manage his own and other men's affairs. Besides~
 129 1 |              were true philosophers, and he did not~reproach those
 130 1 |           also easy in conversation, and he made himself~agreeable
 131 1 |         morals, or of anything else; and he gave them his help, that~
 132 1 |            according to his deserts; and he always~acted conformably
 133 1 |             stay in the same places, and to~employ himself about
 134 1 |       himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of~headache
 135 1 |            he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual~occupations.
 136 1 |        secrets were not but very few and very rare, and~these only
 137 1 |              very few and very rare, and~these only about public
 138 1 |           only about public matters; and he showed prudence and economy
 139 1 |               and he showed prudence and economy in~the exhibition
 140 1 |             of the public spectacles and the construction of public~
 141 1 |             donations to the people, and in such things, for he was~
 142 1 |           ate, nor about the texture and colour of his clothes, nor
 143 1 |              his villa on the~coast, and from Lanuvium generally.
 144 1 |       Tusculum who asked his pardon; and such was all~his behaviour.
 145 1 |            he had abundance of~time, and without confusion, in an
 146 1 |              orderly way, vigorously and~consistently. And that might
 147 1 |         vigorously and~consistently. And that might be applied to
 148 1 |           able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those~things which
 149 1 |            too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy~without excess.
 150 1 |          enough both to bear the one and to be~sober in the other
 151 1 |              a man who has a perfect and~invincible soul, such as
 152 1 |             associates, good kinsmen~and friends, nearly everything
 153 1 |             grandfather's concubine, and that I preserved the~flower
 154 1 |              the~flower of my youth, and that I did not make proof
 155 1 |             was~subjected to a ruler and a father who was able to
 156 1 |              away all~pride from me, and to bring me to the knowledge
 157 1 |      embroidered dresses, or torches and statues, and such-like show;
 158 1 |              or torches and statues, and such-like show; but~that
 159 1 |            to vigilance over myself,~and who, at the same time, pleased
 160 1 |            pleased me by his respect and affection;~that my children
 161 1 |     proficiency in rhetoric, poetry, and the other~studies, in which
 162 1 |       Maximus; that I received clear and frequent~impressions about
 163 1 |          living according to nature, and what kind of a~life that
 164 1 |             as depended on the gods, and their~gifts, and help, and
 165 1 |           the gods, and their~gifts, and help, and inspirations,
 166 1 |           and their~gifts, and help, and inspirations, nothing hindered
 167 1 |             it through my own fault, and through not observing the
 168 1 |             admonitions~of the gods, and, I may almost say, their
 169 1 |              Benedicta or Theodotus, and that, after having fallen
 170 1 |       amatory passions, I was cured; and, though I was often out
 171 1 |           not the means of doing it; and that to myself the same
 172 1 |            such a wife,~so obedient, and so affectionate, and so
 173 1 |       obedient, and so affectionate, and so simple; that I had~abundance
 174 1 |             masters for my children; and that remedies have been~
 175 1 |              by dreams, both others, and against bloodspitting and~
 176 1 |            and against bloodspitting and~giddiness...; and that,
 177 1 |      bloodspitting and~giddiness...; and that, when I had an inclination
 178 1 |            the hands of any sophist, and that I did not waste my~
 179 1 |         require the help of the gods and fortune.~ Among the Quadi
 180 2 |            ignorance of what is~good and evil. But I who have seen
 181 2 |           good that it is~beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly,
 182 2 |             the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who~does
 183 2 |             in the same intelligence and the same portion~of the
 184 2 |           like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act~against
 185 2 |          then is contrary to nature; and it is acting~against one
 186 2 |              one another to be vexed and to turn away.~ Whatever
 187 2 |             am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the~ruling part.
 188 2 |             little flesh and breath, and the~ruling part. Throw away
 189 2 |       despise the flesh; it is~blood and bones and a network, a contexture
 190 2 |         flesh; it is~blood and bones and a network, a contexture
 191 2 |         contexture of nerves, veins, and~arteries. See the breath
 192 2 |          kind of a thing it is, air, and~not always the same, but
 193 2 |            but every moment sent out and again sucked in.~The third
 194 2 |              without an interweaving~and involution with the things
 195 2 |              thence all things flow; and there is besides necessity,
 196 2 |          there is besides necessity, and that which~is for the advantage
 197 2 |          nature of~the whole brings, and what serves to maintain
 198 2 |               but~cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful
 199 2 |            putting off these things, and how~often thou hast received
 200 2 |           opportunity from the gods, and yet dost~not use it. Thou
 201 2 |            universe thou art a~part, and of what administrator of
 202 2 |              existence is an~efflux, and that a limit of time is
 203 2 |            from thy mind, it will go and~thou wilt go, and it will
 204 2 |            will go and~thou wilt go, and it will never return.~ Every
 205 2 |            think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou~hast
 206 2 |            hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling
 207 2 |          perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of~affection, and
 208 2 |            and feeling of~affection, and freedom, and justice; and
 209 2 |              affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself
 210 2 |            and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from~
 211 2 |             from~all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief,
 212 2 |        laying aside all~carelessness and passionate aversion from
 213 2 |              the commands of reason,~and all hypocrisy, and self-love,
 214 2 |           reason,~and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent
 215 2 |            hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion~
 216 2 |           life which flows~in quiet, and is like the existence of
 217 2 |          time to learn something new and good, and cease to be~whirled
 218 2 |              something new and good, and cease to be~whirled around.
 219 2 |              life by their activity, and yet have no object to~which
 220 2 |            to direct every movement, and, in a word, all their thoughts.~
 221 2 |             the nature of the whole,~and what is my nature, and how
 222 2 |               and what is my nature, and how this is related to that,
 223 2 |             this is related to that, and what~kind of a part it is
 224 2 |             of what kind of a whole; and that there is no one~who
 225 2 |       hinders thee from always doing and saying the things which
 226 2 |           reason~with a certain pain and unconscious contraction;
 227 2 |              manner~more intemperate and more womanish in his offences.
 228 2 |              offences. Rightly then,~and in a way worthy of philosophy,
 229 2 |              is committed~with pain; and on the whole the one is
 230 2 |           who has been~first wronged and through pain is compelled
 231 2 |           moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly. But
 232 2 |              in truth they do exist, and they do care for human things,
 233 2 |            do care for human things, and they~have put all the means
 234 2 |             to fall into~real evils. And as to the rest, if there
 235 2 |             want of skill, that good~and evil should happen indiscriminately
 236 2 |         indiscriminately to the good and the bad. But~death certainly,
 237 2 |            bad. But~death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour,
 238 2 |          certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure,~
 239 2 |           honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure,~all these things
 240 2 |           equally happen to good men and bad, being things~which
 241 2 |              of~all sensible things, and particularly those which
 242 2 |         vapoury~fame; how worthless, and contemptible, and sordid,
 243 2 |         worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable,
 244 2 |            contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and~dead they
 245 2 |              sordid, and perishable, and~dead they are- all this
 246 2 |             these are whose opinions and voices give~reputation;
 247 2 |           reputation; what death is, and the fact that, if a man
 248 2 |           man looks at it~in itself, and by the abstractive power
 249 2 |              an operation~of nature; and if any one is afraid of
 250 2 |             comes near to the deity, and by what part of him, and
 251 2 |             and by what part of him, and when~this part of man is
 252 2 |     traverses everything in a~round, and pries into the things beneath
 253 2 |             earth, as the poet says,~and seeks by conjecture what
 254 2 |            to the daemon~within him, and to reverence it sincerely.
 255 2 |              reverence it sincerely. And reverence of the daemon~
 256 2 |         keeping it pure from passion and thoughtlessness, and~dissatisfaction
 257 2 |         passion and thoughtlessness, and~dissatisfaction with what
 258 2 |            with what comes from gods and men. For the things from~
 259 2 |     veneration for their excellence; and the things from~men should
 260 2 |             us by reason of kinship; and sometimes even, in~a manner,
 261 2 |              men's ignorance of good and~bad; this defect being not
 262 2 | distinguishing things that are white and black.~ Though thou shouldst
 263 2 |           live three thousand years, and as~many times ten thousand
 264 2 |            he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought
 265 2 |            perishes~is not the same; and so that which is lost appears
 266 2 |           eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle,
 267 2 |              come round in a circle, and that it~makes no difference
 268 2 |        hundred, or an infinite time; and the second,~that the longest
 269 2 |               that the longest liver and he who will die soonest
 270 2 |             only thing which he has, and that a man~cannot lose a
 271 2 |           Cynic Monimus~is manifest: and manifest too is the use
 272 2 |           when it~becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumour on
 273 2 |      Fourthly, when~it plays a part, and does or says anything insincerely
 274 2 |            says anything insincerely and untruly.~Fifthly, when it
 275 2 |            allows any act of its own and any movement to be~without
 276 2 |       movement to be~without an aim, and does anything thoughtlessly
 277 2 |          does anything thoughtlessly and without~considering what
 278 2 |            with reference to an end; and the end of rational animals
 279 2 |              is~to follow the reason and the law of the most ancient
 280 2 |             of the most ancient city and polity.~ Of human life the
 281 2 |            life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux,~
 282 2 |              substance is in a flux,~and the perception dull, and
 283 2 |             and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole
 284 2 |             subject~to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune
 285 2 |  putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine,
 286 2 |              fortune hard to divine, and~fame a thing devoid of judgement.
 287 2 |           thing devoid of judgement. And, to say all in a word,~everything
 288 2 |             to the body is a stream, and what belongs~to the soul
 289 2 |       belongs~to the soul is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare
 290 2 |          soul is a dream and vapour, and life is a warfare and a~
 291 2 |        vapour, and life is a warfare and a~stranger's sojourn, and
 292 2 |            and a~stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.
 293 2 |             conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy.~But
 294 2 |             a man free from~violence and unharmed, superior to pains
 295 2 |          unharmed, superior to pains and pleasures, doing~nothing
 296 2 |             purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy, not~feeling
 297 2 |         doing or not doing anything; and~besides, accepting all that
 298 2 |          accepting all that happens, and all that is allotted, as~
 299 2 |              whence he himself came;~and, finally, waiting for death
 300 2 |        apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements?
 301 2 |              is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is
 302 3 |           life is daily wasting away~and a smaller part of it is
 303 3 |             comprehension of things, and retain the power of contemplation~
 304 3 |              knowledge of the divine and the human.~For if he shall
 305 3 |            into dotage, perspiration and nutrition~and imagination
 306 3 |           perspiration and nutrition~and imagination and appetite,
 307 3 |            nutrition~and imagination and appetite, and whatever else
 308 3 |            imagination and appetite, and whatever else there is of
 309 3 |             making use of ourselves, and filling~up the measure of
 310 3 |             the measure of our duty, and clearly separating all appearances,~
 311 3 |          separating all appearances,~and considering whether a man
 312 3 |         should now depart from life, and~whatever else of the kind
 313 3 |             the conception~of things and the understanding of them
 314 3 |           contain something~pleasing and attractive. For instance,
 315 3 |            are split at the surface, and these parts which thus open,
 316 3 |         these parts which thus open, and~have a certain fashion contrary
 317 3 |           are~beautiful in a manner, and in a peculiar way excite
 318 3 |          excite a desire for~eating. And again, figs, when they are
 319 3 |           are quite ripe, gape open; and in~the ripe olives the very
 320 3 |        peculiar beauty to the fruit. And the ears of corn~bending
 321 3 |           ears of corn~bending down, and the lion's eyebrows, and
 322 3 |             and the lion's eyebrows, and the foam which flows from~
 323 3 |             the mouth of wild boars, and many other things- though
 324 3 |          nature, help to adorn them, and they please the mind; so
 325 3 |            man~should have a feeling and deeper insight with respect
 326 3 |              so as to give pleasure. And so he will see even the~
 327 3 |            than those which~painters and sculptors show by imitation;
 328 3 |         sculptors show by imitation; and in an old woman and an~old
 329 3 |       imitation; and in an old woman and an~old man he will be able
 330 3 |            to see a certain maturity and comeliness;~and the attractive
 331 3 |             maturity and comeliness;~and the attractive loveliness
 332 3 |            look~on with chaste eyes; and many such things will present
 333 3 |           truly familiar~with nature and her works.~ Hippocrates
 334 3 |           diseases himself fell sick and died.~The Chaldaei foretold
 335 3 |         foretold the deaths of many, and then fate caught them~too.
 336 3 |          caught them~too. Alexander, and Pompeius, and Caius Caesar,
 337 3 |             Alexander, and Pompeius, and Caius Caesar, after so often~
 338 3 |             destroying whole cities, and in battle cutting to pieces~
 339 3 |             ten thousands of cavalry and infantry, themselves too
 340 3 |         filled with water internally and~died smeared all over with
 341 3 |           smeared all over with mud. And lice destroyed Democritus;
 342 3 |           lice destroyed Democritus; and~other lice killed Socrates.
 343 3 |            cease to be held by~pains and pleasures, and to be a slave
 344 3 |              by~pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel,
 345 3 |              the one is~intelligence and deity; the other is earth
 346 3 |            deity; the other is earth and corruption.~ Do not waste
 347 3 |              is such a person doing,~and why, and what is he saying,
 348 3 |             a person doing,~and why, and what is he saying, and what
 349 3 |               and what is he saying, and what is he thinking of,
 350 3 |              what is he thinking of, and what~is he contriving, and
 351 3 |           and what~is he contriving, and whatever else of the kind
 352 3 |            that is without a purpose and~useless, but most of all
 353 3 |             the over-curious feeling and the malignant;~and a man
 354 3 |           feeling and the malignant;~and a man should use himself
 355 3 |         everything in thee is~simple and benevolent, and such as
 356 3 |            is~simple and benevolent, and such as befits a social
 357 3 |              befits a social animal, and one~that cares not for thoughts
 358 3 |              has any rivalry or envy and suspicion, or anything else
 359 3 |              For the man who is such and no longer delays being among
 360 3 |           the best, is like a priest and minister of the gods, using~
 361 3 |             everything which happens and is assigned~to him as his
 362 3 |      assigned~to him as his portion; and not often, nor yet without
 363 3 |              without great~necessity and for the general interest,
 364 3 |             matter for his activity; and he constantly thinks of
 365 3 |             the sum total of things, and he~makes his own acts fair,
 366 3 |             makes his own acts fair, and he is persuaded that his
 367 3 |            is carried along~with him and carries him along with it.
 368 3 |           carries him along with it. And he remembers also that~every
 369 3 |      rational animal is his kinsman, and that to care for all men~
 370 3 |           according to man's nature; and a man should hold on to
 371 3 |            men they are both at home and from home, both by night~
 372 3 |             from home, both by night~and by day, and what they are,
 373 3 |            both by night~and by day, and what they are, and with
 374 3 |              day, and what they are, and with what men they live
 375 3 |       ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many~
 376 3 |          busy about too many things. And further, let the deity which~
 377 3 |             of a living being, manly and of ripe age,~and engaged
 378 3 |               manly and of ripe age,~and engaged in matter political,
 379 3 |         engaged in matter political, and a Roman, and a ruler, who
 380 3 |              political, and a Roman, and a ruler, who has~taken his
 381 3 |         which summons him~from life, and ready to go, having need
 382 3 |         testimony. Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor~
 383 3 |               temperance, fortitude, and, in a word, anything better
 384 3 |           according to right reason, and in the condition that is
 385 3 |             to it with all thy soul, and enjoy that which thou~hast
 386 3 |            itself~all thy appetites, and carefully examines all the
 387 3 |        examines all the impressions, and, as~Socrates said, has detached
 388 3 |            the persuasions of sense,~and has submitted itself to
 389 3 |        submitted itself to the gods, and cares for mankind; if thou~
 390 3 |              everything else smaller and of less value than this,
 391 3 |            if thou dost once diverge and incline to~it, thou wilt
 392 3 |             is thy proper possession and thy~own; for it is not right
 393 3 |             that which is rationally and politically or~practically
 394 3 |             superiority all at once, and carry us away. But do thou,
 395 3 |           But do thou, I say, simply~and freely choose the better,
 396 3 |            freely choose the better, and hold to it.- But that which
 397 3 |           thee as an~animal, say so, and maintain thy judgement without
 398 3 |           anything~which needs walls and curtains: for he who has
 399 3 |              everything~intelligence and daemon and the worship of
 400 3 |              intelligence and daemon and the worship of its excellence,
 401 3 |            solitude or much~company; and, what is chief of all, he
 402 3 |             can be done with decency and~order; taking care of this
 403 3 |             to an intelligent animal and~a member of a civil community.~
 404 3 |              of one who is chastened and purified thou wilt find
 405 3 |              the stage before ending and finishing the play. Besides,~
 406 3 |             inconsistent with nature and the constitution of the~
 407 3 |              of the~rational animal. And this faculty promises freedom
 408 3 |        freedom from hasty~judgement, and friendship towards men,
 409 3 |              friendship towards men, and obedience to the gods.~
 410 3 |            these only which are few; and~besides bear in mind that
 411 3 |             is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his
 412 3 |          time which every man~lives, and small the nook of the earth
 413 3 |            the earth where he lives; and short too~the longest posthumous
 414 3 |             longest posthumous fame, and even this only continued
 415 3 |              who will very soon die, and who~know not even themselves,
 416 3 |            in its complete entirety, and~tell thyself its proper
 417 3 |             thyself its proper name, and the names of the things
 418 3 |              it has been compounded, and into which it will be resolved.
 419 3 |              to examine~methodically and truly every object which
 420 3 |           presented to thee in~life, and always to look at things
 421 3 |            kind of universe this is, and what kind of use everything~
 422 3 |           everything~performs in it, and what value everything has
 423 3 |              reference to the~whole, and what with reference to man,
 424 3 |        families; what each thing is,~and of what it is composed,
 425 3 |              of what it is composed, and how long it is the nature
 426 3 |           makes an impression on me, and what virtue I~have need
 427 3 |             simplicity, contentment, and the rest. Wherefore, on
 428 3 |            say: this comes from God; and this is~according to the
 429 3 |       according to the apportionment and spinning of the thread of~
 430 3 |            of the thread of~destiny, and such-like coincidence and
 431 3 |            and such-like coincidence and chance; and this is from
 432 3 |              coincidence and chance; and this is from one of~the
 433 3 |          from one of~the same stock, and a kinsman and partner, one
 434 3 |            same stock, and a kinsman and partner, one who knows not
 435 3 |          fellowship with~benevolence and justice. At the same time
 436 3 |        activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every
 437 3 |           heroic truth in every word~and sound which thou utterest,
 438 3 |      utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no~man who is able
 439 3 |             always their instruments and knives ready for~cases which
 440 3 |       understanding of things divine and human, and for~doing everything,
 441 3 |             things divine and human, and for~doing everything, even
 442 3 |              which unites the divine and human to one another. For
 443 3 |           acts of the ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the~selections
 444 3 |         ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the~selections from books
 445 3 |         which thou hast before thee, and throwing~away idle hopes,
 446 3 |          belongs both to wild~beasts and to men who have made themselves
 447 3 |          made themselves into women, and to a~Phalaris and a Nero:
 448 3 |             women, and to a~Phalaris and a Nero: and to have the
 449 3 |            to a~Phalaris and a Nero: and to have the intelligence
 450 3 |             not~believe in the gods, and who betray their country,
 451 3 |            who betray their country, and do their impure~deeds when
 452 3 |              good man, to be pleased and content with what happens,
 453 3 |           content with what happens, and with~the thread which is
 454 3 |        thread which is spun for him; and not to defile the divinity
 455 3 |        anything contrary~to justice. And if all men refuse to believe
 456 3 |              lives a simple,~modest, and contented life, he is neither
 457 3 |           tranquil, ready to depart, and without~any compulsion perfectly
 458 4 |              itself to that which is and is presented to it. For
 459 4 |          certain conditions however; and it makes a material for
 460 4 |        matter which is heaped on~it, and consumes it, and rises higher
 461 4 |              on~it, and consumes it, and rises higher by means of
 462 4 |             the country, sea-shores,~and mountains; and thou too
 463 4 |           sea-shores,~and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire
 464 4 |              in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility
 465 4 |             to thyself this retreat, and renew thyself; and let thy~
 466 4 |          retreat, and renew thyself; and let thy~principles be brief
 467 4 |              thy~principles be brief and fundamental, which, as soon
 468 4 |         cleanse the soul completely,~and to send thee back free from
 469 4 |       animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part
 470 4 |         endure is a part of~justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily;
 471 4 |              do wrong involuntarily; and consider how many~already,
 472 4 |           enmity, suspicion, hatred, and fighting, have~been stretched
 473 4 |              dead, reduced to ashes; and be quiet at last.- But~perhaps
 474 4 |              of political community, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps~
 475 4 |              once drawn itself apart and discovered its~own power,
 476 4 |            discovered its~own power, and think also of all that thou
 477 4 |             all that thou hast heard and assented~to about pain and
 478 4 |           and assented~to about pain and pleasure, and be quiet at
 479 4 |             about pain and pleasure, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps
 480 4 |             everything is forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite
 481 4 |            each side of the present, and the emptiness of applause,
 482 4 |           the emptiness of applause, and the~changeableness and want
 483 4 |               and the~changeableness and want of judgement in those
 484 4 |              pretend to give~praise, and the narrowness of the space
 485 4 |           which it is~circumscribed, and be quiet at last. For the
 486 4 |              whole earth is a point,~and how small a nook in it is
 487 4 |             it is this thy dwelling, and how few are there~in it,
 488 4 |             how few are there~in it, and what kind of people are
 489 4 |         little territory~of thy own, and above all do not distract
 490 4 |         strain thyself, but be~free, and look at things as a man,
 491 4 |          soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but~our
 492 4 |            seest, change immediately~and will no longer be; and constantly
 493 4 |   immediately~and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind
 494 4 |              commands us what to do, and what not to do; if this~
 495 4 |              human race are members? And from thence, from this common~
 496 4 |            very intellectual faculty and~reasoning faculty and our
 497 4 |        faculty and~reasoning faculty and our capacity for law; or
 498 4 |            to me from certain earth,~and that which is watery from
 499 4 |         watery from another element, and that which is hot~and fiery
 500 4 |       element, and that which is hot~and fiery from some peculiar