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1 1 | this kind; but, through their favour,~there never was
2 1 | depended on the gods, and their~gifts, and help, and inspirations,
3 1 | and, I may almost say, their direct instructions; that
4 2 | happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is~good
5 2 | the gods; for the gods on their~part will require nothing
6 2 | wearied~themselves in life by their activity, and yet have no
7 2 | movement, and, in a word, all their thoughts.~ Through not observing
8 2 | observe the~movements of their own minds must of necessity
9 2 | reflection resolves into~their parts all the things which
10 2 | gods merit veneration for their excellence; and the things
11 3 | the very circumstance of their being near to~rottenness
12 3 | As physicians have always their instruments and knives ready
13 3 | cases which suddenly require their skill, so do thou have principles~
14 3 | the gods, and who betray their country, and do their impure~
15 3 | betray their country, and do their impure~deeds when they have
16 4 | whatever it may be, and~their dissolution make room for
17 4 | Again, all~is the same. Their life too is gone. In like
18 4 | what was in~accordance with their proper constitution, and
19 4 | as they have breathed~out their breath, they are gone, and
20 4 | children who learn from their parents, simply to act~and
21 4 | after often~contracting their eyebrows over the sick;
22 4 | many~tyrants who have used their power over men's lives with
23 4 | early? Certainly~they lie in their tombs somewhere at last,
24 5 | together to put~in order their several parts of the universe?
25 5 | will. But those who love their several arts exhaust themselves~
26 5 | follows from any~people nor by their words, but if a thing is
27 5 | For those persons have~their peculiar leading principle
28 5 | leading principle and follow their peculiar movement;~which
29 5 | be good, to which after their~first conception in the
30 5 | sufficient for themselves and for their own works. They move then
31 5 | first principle which is their own, and they make their
32 5 | their own, and they make their way to the~end which is
33 5 | and limit those~affects to their parts. But when these affects
34 5 | according to thy ability and their fitness; and~if they should
35 6 | lay them bare and look at their~worthlessness and strip
36 6 | to them to be suitable to their nature and profitable! And~
37 6 | suppose them to be suitable to their nature and~profitable to
38 6 | those who are not skilled in their~craft- nevertheless they
39 6 | reason (the principles) of~their art and do not endure to
40 6 | reason (the principles) of their own arts than man to his
41 6 | things in the universe~and their relation to one another.
42 6 | is the special~object of their providence? But if they
43 6 | men). But act even against their~will, when the principles
44 7 | bodies are carried, being by their nature united with and~cooperating
45 7 | which~thou seest, and out of their substance will make other
46 7 | them, if~they can, give their opinion about it.~ About
47 7 | No joining others in their wailing, no violent emotion.~ ~
48 7 | should look at them in their assemblies, armies,~agricultural
49 7 | involuntarily, nor wilt thou want their~approbation, if thou lookest
50 7 | lookest to the sources of their opinions and~appetites.~
51 8 | acquainted with~things, and their causes (forms), and their
52 8 | their causes (forms), and their matter, and the ruling~principles
53 8 | all things I see what is their~nature, and I use each according
54 8 | fault because thou seest in their~workshop shavings and cuttings
55 9 | one another according to their deserts, but in no way to
56 9 | and the good contrary to their deserts, because frequently
57 9 | but the good have pain for their share and the things which~
58 9 | caught and~held by it, for their nature is too strong for
59 9 | opinion, and in~a sense their death, is no evil. Turn
60 9 | Quarrels of little children and their sports, and poor spirits~
61 9 | anything injurious, approach their poor souls, penetrate within,
62 9 | like wave~after wave and their rapidity, he will despise
63 9 | countless herds of men and their~countless solemnities, and
64 9 | Imagine that thou seest their poor souls laid bare. When~
65 9 | think that they do harm by their blame or good by their praise,~
66 9 | by their blame or good by their praise,~what an idea!~ Loss
67 9 | by working according to their several constitutions obtain
68 9 | constitutions obtain what is~their own; so also as man is formed
69 10| parts of the whole are in their~nature subject to change,
70 10| robbers, if thou examinest their opinions?~ Acquire the contemplative
71 10| arrogant~airs in bestowing their praise or blame on others,
72 10| hands and feet, but with their most valuable~part, by means
73 10| angry and scolding from their~elevated place. But a short
74 10| and by~examination into their nature the things which
75 10| worthy of credit and bestow their praise, or on~the contrary
76 10| produces other leaves in their places. But a brief~existence
77 11| remember to~apply thyself to their several parts, and by this
78 11| are equally deserters from their post,~the man who does it
79 11| justice the other~virtues have their foundation: for justice
80 11| opinions they are; and as to their acts, consider with what
81 11| in~a word wrong-doers to their neighbours.~ Fourth, consider
82 11| us, for those~acts have their foundation in men's ruling
83 11| thee and the watery, though their tendency is downward, still
84 11| a position which is not their natural one. In~this manner
85 11| The Lacedaemonians at their public spectacles used to
86 11| the same manner perform their work, and also be reminded
87 11| and also be reminded of~their purity and nudity. For there
88 12| forms) of things bare of their~coverings; the purposes
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