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501 4 | out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the
502 4 | decomposition into the same; and~altogether not a thing of
503 4 | of a reasonable animal, and not contrary to~the reason
504 4 | is a matter of necessity; and if a man will not have it
505 4 | very short time both thou and he will be dead; and~soon
506 4 | thou and he will be dead; and~soon not even your names
507 4 | Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away
508 4 | complaint, "I have been harmed,"~and the harm is taken away.~
509 4 | happens, happens justly, and if~thou observest carefully,
510 4 | respect to what is just, and as if it were done by one
511 4 | then as thou hast begun;~and whatever thou doest, do
512 4 | with this, the being~good, and in the sense in which a
513 4 | the reason of the ruling and legislating faculty~may
514 4 | hand who sets thee right and moves thee from any~opinion.
515 4 | or of common advantage, and the like,~not because it
516 4 | whom thou art now a~beast and an ape, if thou wilt return
517 4 | return to thy principles and the~worship of reason.~
518 4 | himself,~that it may be just and pure; or as Agathon says,
519 4 | men who foolishly admire and perish. But suppose that
520 4 | remember are even immortal, and that the remembrance will~
521 4 | what then is this to thee? And I say not what is it to~
522 4 | is beautiful in itself, and~terminates in itself, not
523 4 | example, material things and works of art. That which
524 4 | continuance, whatever it may be, and~their dissolution make room
525 4 | some time are~transmuted and diffused, and assume a fiery
526 4 | transmuted and diffused, and assume a fiery nature by
527 4 | intelligence of the universe, and in this way make~room for
528 4 | which come to dwell there. And this is the~answer which
529 4 | which are daily eaten~by us and the other animals. For what
530 4 | what a number is consumed, and thus~in a manner buried
531 4 | those who feed on them! And~nevertheless this earth
532 4 | these bodies into blood, and the transformations into
533 4 | into that which is material and that which is the cause
534 4 | have respect to~justice, and on the occasion of every
535 4 | says, Dear city of Cecrops; and wilt not~thou say, Dear
536 4 | say,~Do what is necessary, and whatever the reason of the
537 4 | naturally social requires, and as it requires. For this
538 4 | greatest part of what we~say and do being unnecessary, if
539 4 | he will have~more leisure and less uneasiness. Accordingly
540 4 | portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his~own just
541 4 | satisfied with his~own just acts and benevolent disposition.~
542 4 | happens has been apportioned and spun out to thee. In a word,
543 4 | present by the aid of reason~and justice. Be sober in thy
544 4 | certain order subsist in thee, and~disorder in the All? And
545 4 | and~disorder in the All? And this too when all things
546 4 | things are so separated and~diffused and sympathetic.~
547 4 | so separated and~diffused and sympathetic.~ A black character,
548 4 | who has need of~another, and has not from himself all
549 4 | the universe who withdraws and separates~himself from the
550 4 | same nature~produces this, and has produced thee too: he
551 4 | philosopher without a tunic, and the other without a~book:
552 4 | Bread I have not, he says, and I~abide by reason.- And
553 4 | and I~abide by reason.- And I do not get the means of
554 4 | living out of my~learning, and I abide by my reason.~ Love
555 4 | which thou hast learned, and be~content with it; and
556 4 | and be~content with it; and pass through the rest of
557 4 | the~other epochs of time and of whole nations, and see
558 4 | time and of whole nations, and see how many after~great
559 4 | great efforts soon fell and were resolved into the elements.
560 4 | their proper constitution, and to hold firmly to~this and
561 4 | and to hold firmly to~this and to be content with it. And
562 4 | and to be content with it. And herein it is necessary to
563 4 | everything has its proper value and~proportion. For thus thou
564 4 | Caeso, Volesus, Leonnatus, and a little after~also Scipio
565 4 | little after~also Scipio and Cato, then Augustus, then
566 4 | Augustus, then also Hadrian and~Antoninus. For all things
567 4 | all things soon pass away and become a mere tale, and~
568 4 | and become a mere tale, and~complete oblivion soon buries
569 4 | oblivion soon buries them. And I say this of those who
570 4 | their breath, they are gone, and no man speaks of them. And,
571 4 | and no man speaks of them. And, to~conclude the matter,
572 4 | one thing, thoughts just, and acts social, and~words which
573 4 | thoughts just, and acts social, and~words which never lie, and
574 4 | and~words which never lie, and a disposition which gladly
575 4 | flowing from a principle and~source of the same kind.~
576 4 | both that which remembers and that~which is remembered.~
577 4 | things take place by change, and~accustom thyself to consider
578 4 | change the things which are and to make new~things like
579 4 | notion.~ Thou wilt soon die, and thou art not yet simple,
580 4 | kind~of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.~
581 4 | nor yet in any turning and mutation of thy corporeal~
582 4 | not form such opinions, and all is well. And if that
583 4 | opinions, and all is well. And if that which is~nearest
584 4 | burnt, filled with matter and~rottenness, nevertheless
585 4 | happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that~which
586 4 | lives contrary to nature and to him~who lives according
587 4 | being, having one~substance and one soul; and observe how
588 4 | substance and one soul; and observe how all things have
589 4 | of this one living being; and how all~things act with
590 4 | things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating~
591 4 | continuous~spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.~
592 4 | things to undergo change, and no good for things~to subsist
593 4 | the events which happen, and a~violent stream; for as
594 4 | seen, it is carried~away, and another comes in its place,
595 4 | another comes in its place, and this will be carried away~
596 4 | which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose~in
597 4 | known as the rose~in spring and the fruit in summer; for
598 4 | summer; for such is disease, and death, and~calumny, and
599 4 | such is disease, and death, and~calumny, and treachery,
600 4 | and death, and~calumny, and treachery, and whatever
601 4 | calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools
602 4 | is a rational connection: and as all existing things are~
603 4 | earth is~to become water, and the death of water is to
604 4 | water is to become air, and the~death of air is to become
605 4 | of air is to become fire, and reversely. And think too
606 4 | become fire, and reversely. And think too of him~who forgets
607 4 | forgets whither the way leads, and that men quarrel with that
608 4 | which~governs the universe; and the things which daily meet
609 4 | with seem to~them strange: and consider that we ought not
610 4 | that we ought not to act and speak as if we~were asleep,
611 4 | in sleep we seem to act and speak; and that we~ought
612 4 | we seem to act and speak; and that we~ought not, like
613 4 | their parents, simply to act~and speak as we have been taught.~
614 4 | eyebrows over the sick; and how many astrologers~after
615 4 | pretensions the deaths of others; and~how many philosophers after
616 4 | after killing thousands; and how many~tyrants who have
617 4 | as if they were immortal; and how many cities are entirely~
618 4 | dead, so to speak, Helice and Pompeii and Herculaneum,
619 4 | speak, Helice and Pompeii and Herculaneum, and others~
620 4 | Pompeii and Herculaneum, and others~innumerable. Add
621 4 | has been laid out dead,~and another buries him: and
622 4 | and another buries him: and all this in a short time.
623 4 | always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are,
624 4 | worthless human things are, and~what was yesterday a little
625 4 | time conformably to~nature, and end thy journey in content,
626 4 | nature who produced it, and thanking the~tree on which
627 4 | break,~but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water
628 4 | than this a good fortune? And dost~thou in all cases call
629 4 | deviation from man's nature? And does a thing seem to thee
630 4 | against inconsiderate opinions and~falsehood; will it prevent
631 4 | having modesty, freedom, and~everything else, by the
632 4 | carried out~many to be buried, and then were carried out themselves.
633 4 | interval is small between birth and death; and consider with
634 4 | between birth and death; and consider with how~much trouble,
635 4 | consider with how~much trouble, and in company with what sort
636 4 | with what sort of people and in what a~feeble body this
637 4 | immensity of~time behind thee, and to the time which is before
638 4 | him who lives three days and him who lives three generations?~
639 4 | Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural:~
640 4 | natural:~accordingly say and do everything in conformity
641 4 | frees a man from trouble, and warfare,~and all artifice
642 4 | from trouble, and warfare,~and all artifice and ostentatious
643 4 | warfare,~and all artifice and ostentatious display.~
644 5 | things for which I exist and for~which I was brought
645 5 | to~lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm?- But this
646 5 | then to take thy pleasure, and not at all~for action or
647 5 | several parts of the universe? And art thou unwilling~to do
648 5 | the work of a human being, and dost thou not make haste
649 5 | fixed bounds both to eating and drinking, and yet thou~goest
650 5 | to eating and drinking, and yet thou~goest beyond these
651 5 | wouldst love thy nature~and her will. But those who
652 5 | working at them unwashed and without food; but thou valuest
653 5 | vainglorious man his little glory. And such men, when they have
654 5 | society more vile in thy eyes and less worthy of~thy labour?~
655 5 | How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression
656 5 | troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all
657 5 | tranquility.~ Judge every word and deed which are according
658 5 | nature to be fit~for thee; and be not diverted by the blame
659 5 | peculiar leading principle and follow their peculiar movement;~
660 5 | following thy own~nature and the common nature; and the
661 5 | nature and the common nature; and the way of both is one.~
662 5 | nature until I~shall fall and rest, breathing out my breath
663 5 | which I daily draw it in, and falling upon that earth
664 5 | father collected the seed, and my mother the blood, and
665 5 | and my mother the blood, and my~nurse the milk; out of
666 5 | been supplied~with food and drink; which bears me when
667 5 | bears me when I tread on it and abuse it~for so many purposes.~
668 5 | contentment with thy portion and with~few things, benevolence,
669 5 | excuse of~natural incapacity and unfitness, and yet thou
670 5 | incapacity and unfitness, and yet thou still remainest~
671 5 | furnished by nature to murmur, and to be stingy, and to~flatter,
672 5 | murmur, and to be stingy, and to~flatter, and to find
673 5 | stingy, and to~flatter, and to find fault with thy poor
674 5 | fault with thy poor body, and to try to please~men, and
675 5 | and to try to please~men, and to make great display, and
676 5 | and to make great display, and to be so restless in thy
677 5 | charged with being rather~slow and dull of comprehension, thou
678 5 | of the man as his debtor,~and he knows what he has done.
679 5 | which has produced~grapes, and seeks for nothing more after
680 5 | call out for others to come and see, but he goes~on to another
681 5 | working~in a social manner, and indeed to wish that his
682 5 | understand what is now said: and for this reason thou wilt~
683 5 | fields of the Athenians and on the plains.- In truth
684 5 | ought to pray in this simple and noble~fashion.~ Just as
685 5 | adapted to procure health; and in the second case it~means:
686 5 | altogether one fitness, harmony. And as the universe is made
687 5 | be such a cause as it is. And~even those who are completely
688 5 | This then was brought and this was precribed to him.
689 5 | health. Let the~perfecting and accomplishment of the things,
690 5 | same kind as thy~health. And so accept everything which
691 5 | the health of the~universe and to the prosperity and felicity
692 5 | universe and to the prosperity and felicity of Zeus (the universe).~
693 5 | because it was done for thee~and prescribed for thee, and
694 5 | and prescribed for thee, and in a manner had reference
695 5 | causes spun with thy destiny; and the~other, because even
696 5 | universe a cause of felicity and~perfection, nay even of
697 5 | whatever from the~conjunction and the continuity either of
698 5 | parts or of the causes.~And thou dost cut off, as far
699 5 | when thou art~dissatisfied, and in a manner triest to put
700 5 | failed, return back again, and be content if the~greater
701 5 | consistent with man's nature, and~love this to which thou
702 5 | to which thou returnest; and do not return to philosophy~
703 5 | those who have sore eyes and~apply a bit of sponge and
704 5 | and~apply a bit of sponge and egg, or as another applies
705 5 | not fail to obey reason,~and thou wilt repose in it.
706 5 | thou wilt repose in it. And remember that philosophy
707 5 | why pleasure deceives us? And consider if~magnanimity,
708 5 | thinkest of the security and the happy course of all
709 5 | faculty of understanding and knowledge?~ Things are in
710 5 | difficult~to understand. And all our assent is changeable;
711 5 | the objects themselves,~and consider how short-lived
712 5 | how short-lived they are and worthless, and that they~
713 5 | they are and worthless, and that they~may be in the
714 5 | those who live with thee, and it is hardly~possible to
715 5 | himself. In such darkness then and~dirt and in so constant
716 5 | such darkness then and~dirt and in so constant a flux both
717 5 | a flux both of substance and of time, and of~motion and
718 5 | of substance and of time, and of~motion and of things
719 5 | and of time, and of~motion and of things moved, what there
720 5 | duty to comfort himself, and to wait for the~ natural
721 5 | the~ natural dissolution and not to be vexed at the delay,
722 5 | nature of the universe; and the other, that~it is in
723 5 | to act contrary to my god and daemon: for~there is no
724 5 | ask myself this question, and inquire, what have I now
725 5 | call the ruling principle? And whose soul have I~now? That
726 5 | be good, he will listen and readily receive as~very
727 5 | saying would~not offend and would not be rejected in
728 5 | when it is said of wealth, and of the means which further~
729 5 | means which further~luxury and fame, as said fitly and
730 5 | and fame, as said fitly and wittily. Go on then and
731 5 | and wittily. Go on then and ask if we~should value and
732 5 | and ask if we~should value and think those things to be
733 5 | am composed of the formal and the material; and neither
734 5 | formal and the material; and neither of them~will perish
735 5 | some part of the universe, and that again will change into~
736 5 | another part of the universe, and so on for ever. And by consequence~
737 5 | universe, and so on for ever. And by consequence~of such a
738 5 | such a change I too exist, and those who begot me, and
739 5 | and those who begot me, and so on for~ever in the other
740 5 | periods~of revolution.~ Reason and the reasoning art (philosophy)
741 5 | sufficient for themselves and for their own works. They
742 5 | principle which is their own, and they make their way to the~
743 5 | which is proposed to them; and this is the reason why such
744 5 | accomplishment of this end, and~that which aids towards
745 5 | for a man~to despise them and to set himself against them;
746 5 | also live well in a palace. And again,~consider that for
747 5 | it has been constituted, and towards this it is carried;~
748 5 | towards this it is carried;~and its end is in that towards
749 5 | towards which it is carried; and where the~end is, there
750 5 | there also is the advantage and the good of each thing.
751 5 | those which have not life, and of those which have life~
752 5 | is impossible is madness: and it is impossible that the~
753 5 | things happen to another, and either because he does not~
754 5 | great spirit he~is firm and remains unharmed. It is
755 5 | shame then that ignorance and~conceit should be stronger
756 5 | soul:~but the soul turns and moves itself alone, and
757 5 | and moves itself alone, and whatever judgements~it may
758 5 | as I must do~good to men and endure them. But so far
759 5 | impediments to my affects and disposition, which have
760 5 | of~acting conditionally and changing: for the mind converts
761 5 | changing: for the mind converts and changes~every hindrance
762 5 | its activity into an aid; and so that which is a~hindrance
763 5 | a furtherance to an act; and that which is an~obstacle
764 5 | is best in the universe; and this is that which~makes
765 5 | makes use of all things and directs all things. And
766 5 | and directs all things. And in like manner~also reverence
767 5 | which is best in thyself; and this is of the~same kind
768 5 | everything else, is this, and thy life is directed by
769 5 | with which things pass by and disappear,~both the things
770 5 | both the things which are and the things which are produced.
771 5 | river in a continual flow, and the activities of~things
772 5 | are in constant change, and the causes work in infinite~
773 5 | work in infinite~varieties; and there is hardly anything
774 5 | anything which stands still. And~consider this which is near
775 5 | boundless abyss of the~past and of the future in which all
776 5 | things or plagued about them and~makes himself miserable?
777 5 | vex him only for a time, and a short~time.~ Think of
778 5 | hast a very small~portion; and of universal time, of which
779 5 | universal time, of which a short and indivisible~interval has
780 5 | has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by~
781 5 | which is fixed by~destiny, and how small a part of it thou
782 5 | nature~wills me to have; and I do what my nature now
783 5 | of thy soul which leads and governs be undisturbed by~
784 5 | of pleasure or of pain; and let it~not unite with them,
785 5 | let it circumscribe itself and limit those~affects to their
786 5 | bad.~ Live with the gods. And he does live with the gods
787 5 | which is assigned~to him, and that it does all that the
788 5 | every man for his guardian and guide, a portion of himself.~
789 5 | guide, a portion of himself.~And this is every man's understanding
790 5 | every man's understanding and reason.~ Art thou angry
791 5 | reason, it will~be said, and he is able, if he takes
792 5 | thy discovery. Well then, and thou hast~reason: by thy
793 5 | listens, thou wilt cure him, and~there is no need of anger.
794 5 | harm. The house is~smoky, and I quit it. Why dost thou
795 5 | out, I remain, am free,~and no man shall hinder me from
796 5 | from doing what I choose; and I choose to~do what is according
797 5 | the nature of the rational and social animal.~ The intelligence
798 5 | the sake of the superior, and it has~fitted the superior
799 5 | subordinated, co-ordinated and assigned to everything its
800 5 | everything its proper~portion, and has brought together into
801 5 | a man in deed or word.~ ~And call to recollection both
802 5 | thou hast passed~through, and how many things thou hast
803 5 | hast been able to endure: and that~the history of thy
804 5 | thy life is now complete and thy service is ended:~and
805 5 | and thy service is ended:~and how many beautiful things
806 5 | beautiful things thou hast seen: and how many pleasures~and pains
807 5 | and how many pleasures~and pains thou hast despised;
808 5 | pains thou hast despised; and how many things called honourable~
809 5 | honourable~thou hast spurned; and to how many ill-minded folks
810 5 | disposition.~ Why do unskilled and ignorant souls disturb him
811 5 | disturb him who has skill and~knowledge? What soul then
812 5 | What soul then has skill and knowledge? That which knows~
813 5 | That which knows~beginning and end, and knows the reason
814 5 | knows~beginning and end, and knows the reason which pervades
815 5 | which pervades all substance~and through all time by fixed
816 5 | be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a~name or not even
817 5 | name; but name is sound and echo. And the things~which
818 5 | name is sound and echo. And the things~which are much
819 5 | valued in life are empty and rotten and trifling, and~
820 5 | life are empty and rotten and trifling, and~like little
821 5 | and rotten and trifling, and~like little dogs biting
822 5 | dogs biting one another, and little children~quarrelling,
823 5 | children~quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway weeping.
824 5 | straightway weeping. But fidelity~and modesty and justice and
825 5 | But fidelity~and modesty and justice and truth are fled~ ~
826 5 | and modesty and justice and truth are fled~ ~ Up to
827 5 | sense are easily changed and never stand still, and the
828 5 | changed and never stand still, and the organs of~perception
829 5 | organs of~perception are dull and easily receive false impressions;
830 5 | receive false impressions; and the poor~soul itself is
831 5 | removal to another state? And until that time comes, what
832 5 | than to venerate the gods and bless them,~and to do good
833 5 | the gods and bless them,~and to do good to men, and to
834 5 | and to do good to men, and to practise tolerance and
835 5 | and to practise tolerance and self-restraint;~but as to
836 5 | limits of the poor flesh~and breath, to remember that
837 5 | canst go by the right way, and think and act in the right
838 5 | the right way, and think and act in the right way. These~
839 5 | both to the soul of God and to the soul of~man, and
840 5 | and to the soul of~man, and to the soul of every rational
841 5 | be hindered by~another; and to hold good to consist
842 5 | the disposition to justice and~the practice of it, and
843 5 | and~the practice of it, and in this to let thy desire
844 5 | effect of my own~badness, and the common weal is not injured,
845 5 | am I troubled about~it? And what is the harm to the
846 5 | according to thy ability and their fitness; and~if they
847 5 | ability and their fitness; and~if they should have sustained
848 5 | himself a good fortune:~and a good fortune is good disposition
849 6 | the universe is obedient and compliant; and the~reason
850 6 | obedient and compliant; and the~reason which governs
851 6 | But all things are made and perfected according to~this
852 6 | thou art doing thy duty; and whether thou art drowsy
853 6 | or satisfied~with sleep; and whether ill-spoken of or
854 6 | ill-spoken of or praised; and whether dying or~doing something
855 6 | existing things soon change, and they will either be reduced~
856 6 | its own disposition is, and what~it does, and on what
857 6 | disposition is, and what~it does, and on what material it works.~
858 6 | Take pleasure in one thing and rest in it, in passing from
859 6 | principle is that which rouses and turns itself, and~while
860 6 | rouses and turns itself, and~while it makes itself such
861 6 | makes itself such as it is and such as it wills to be,
862 6 | nature, or a nature external and independent of this.~ The
863 6 | universe is either a confusion, and a mutual involution of~things,
864 6 | mutual involution of~things, and a dispersion; or it is unity
865 6 | dispersion; or it is unity and order and providence.~If
866 6 | or it is unity and order and providence.~If then it is
867 6 | fortuitous~combination of things and such a disorder? And why
868 6 | things and such a disorder? And why do I care about~anything
869 6 | shall at last become earth? And why am I~disturbed, for
870 6 | supposition is true, I venerate, and I am firm,~and I trust in
871 6 | venerate, and I am firm,~and I trust in him who governs.~
872 6 | quickly return to thyself and do not continue out of tune~
873 6 | thou hadst a step-mother and a mother at the same time,
874 6 | thy mother. Let the court and philosophy now be~to thee
875 6 | now be~to thee step-mother and mother: return to philosophy
876 6 | to philosophy frequently and~repose in her, through whom
877 6 | appears to thee tolerable, and thou appearest tolerable
878 6 | When we have meat before us and such eatables we receive
879 6 | the dead body of a fish, and this is the dead~body of
880 6 | body of a bird or of a pig; and again, that this Falernian
881 6 | only a~little grape juice, and this purple robe some sheep'
882 6 | then are these impressions, and they~reach the things themselves
883 6 | reach the things themselves and penetrate them, and so we
884 6 | themselves and penetrate them, and so we see what~kind of things
885 6 | to act all~through life, and where there are things which
886 6 | we ought to lay them bare and look at their~worthlessness
887 6 | look at their~worthlessness and strip them of all the words
888 6 | perverter of the reason,~and when thou art most sure
889 6 | rational soul, a soul universal and fitted~for political life,
890 6 | nothing else except this; and above all~things he keeps
891 6 | his soul in a condition and in an activity conformable~
892 6 | activity conformable~to reason and social life, and he co-operates
893 6 | reason and social life, and he co-operates to this end
894 6 | hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out~
895 6 | are hurrying out~of it; and of that which is coming
896 6 | already~extinguished. Motions and changes are continually
897 6 | exhalation of the blood and the respiration of the~air.
898 6 | have once drawn in the air and to have given~it back, which
899 6 | receive at thy birth~yesterday and the day before, to give
900 6 | in domesticated animals and wild beasts, nor the~receiving
901 6 | like the act of separating and~parting with the useless
902 6 | opinion, to move thyself and to restrain thyself~in conformity
903 6 | end both all~employments and arts lead. For every art
904 6 | which it~has been made; and both the vine-planter who
905 6 | who looks after the vine, and~the horse-breaker, and he
906 6 | and~the horse-breaker, and he who trains the dog, seek
907 6 | this end. But the~education and the teaching of youth aim
908 6 | the value of the education and the teaching. And if this
909 6 | education and the teaching. And if this is well,~thou wilt
910 6 | must~be envious, jealous, and suspicious of those who
911 6 | take away those~things, and plot against those who have
912 6 | wants any of these things; and besides, he must often find
913 6 | the gods. But to reverence and honour thy own mind will
914 6 | thee~content with thyself, and in harmony with society,
915 6 | in harmony with society, and in agreement~with the gods,
916 6 | praising all that they give and have ordered.~ Above, below,
917 6 | is something more divine,~and advancing by a way hardly
918 6 | living~at the same time and living with themselves;
919 6 | anything is possible for~man and conformable to his nature,
920 6 | torn thee with his~nails, and by dashing against thy head
921 6 | as a treacherous fellow; and yet we are on~our guard
922 6 | to get out of the way, and to have no~suspicion nor
923 6 | man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think
924 6 | who abides in his error and~ignorance.~ I do my duty:
925 6 | things that have~rambled and know not the way.~ As to
926 6 | animals which have no reason and generally all things~and
927 6 | and generally all things~and objects, do thou, since
928 6 | since thou hast reason and they have none,~make use
929 6 | of them with a generous and liberal spirit. But towards
930 6 | behave in a social spirit. And on all~occasions call on
931 6 | occasions call on the gods, and do not perplex thyself about
932 6 | Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were
933 6 | things which concern the body and things which~concern the
934 6 | which~concern the soul: and so thou wilt not wonder
935 6 | in that which is the~one and all, which we call Cosmos,
936 6 | not go on with composure and number every letter? just
937 6 | it is thy duty to observe and without being~disturbed
938 6 | with thee to go~on thy way and finish that which is set
939 6 | suitable to their nature and profitable! And~yet in a
940 6 | their nature and profitable! And~yet in a manner thou dost
941 6 | suitable to their nature and~profitable to them.- But
942 6 | not so.- Teach them then, and show~them without being
943 6 | impressions through the senses, and of~the pulling of the strings
944 6 | which move the appetites, and of the~discursive movements
945 6 | movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.~
946 6 | thee. Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
947 6 | life, a pious disposition and social~acts. Do everything
948 6 | was conformable to reason, and his evenness in~all things,
949 6 | evenness in~all things, and his piety, and the serenity
950 6 | all things, and his piety, and the serenity of his countenance,
951 6 | serenity of his countenance, and~his sweetness, and his disregard
952 6 | countenance, and~his sweetness, and his disregard of empty fame,
953 6 | disregard of empty fame, and his efforts to~understand
954 6 | efforts to~understand things; and how he would never let anything
955 6 | most carefully examined it and clearly understood it; and~
956 6 | and clearly understood it; and~how he bore with those who
957 6 | did nothing in a hurry; and how he listened not to~calumnies,
958 6 | listened not to~calumnies, and how exact an examiner of
959 6 | exact an examiner of manners and actions he was;~and not
960 6 | manners and actions he was;~and not given to reproach people,
961 6 | suspicious, nor a~sophist; and with how little he was satisfied,
962 6 | dress, food, servants; and how laborious and patient;
963 6 | servants; and how laborious and patient; and how he was~
964 6 | how laborious and patient; and how he was~able on account
965 6 | except at the~usual hour; and his firmness and uniformity
966 6 | usual hour; and his firmness and uniformity in his friendships;
967 6 | uniformity in his friendships; and~how he tolerated freedom
968 6 | who opposed his~opinions; and the pleasure that he had
969 6 | showed him~anything better; and how religious he was without
970 6 | Return to thy sober senses and call thyself back; and when
971 6 | senses and call thyself back; and when thou hast~roused thyself
972 6 | roused thyself from sleep and hast perceived that they
973 6 | consist of a little body and a soul. Now to this little
974 6 | these are in its power. And of these~however only those
975 6 | present; for~as to the future and the past activities of the
976 6 | foot does the foot's work and the~hand the hand's. So
977 6 | principles) of~their art and do not endure to depart
978 6 | strange if~the architect and the physician shall have
979 6 | which is common to him and the gods?~ Asia, Europe
980 6 | proceeding or by way of sequence. And~accordingly the lion's gaping
981 6 | the lion's gaping jaws, and that which is poisonous,
982 6 | that which is poisonous, and~every harmful thing, as
983 6 | after-products of the~grand and beautiful. Do not then imagine
984 6 | place from all eternity and everything which will be
985 6 | all things are of one kin and of one form.~ Frequently
986 6 | all things in the universe~and their relation to one another.
987 6 | implicated with one another, and all in this way are friendly
988 6 | in order after another, and this is by~virtue of the
989 6 | virtue of the active movement and mutual conspiration and
990 6 | and mutual conspiration and the unity of~the substance.~
991 6 | which thy lot has been cast: and~the men among whom thou
992 6 | has~been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not
993 6 | by nature there is within and there~abides in them the
994 6 | to reverence this power, and to think, that, if thou
995 6 | that, if thou dost live and act~according to its will,
996 6 | conformity to~intelligence. And thus also in the universe
997 6 | thou~wilt blame the gods, and hate men too, those who
998 6 | likely~to be the cause; and indeed we do much injustice,
999 6 | end, some with knowledge and~design, and others without
1000 6 | with knowledge and~design, and others without knowing what
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