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1001 6 | that they~are labourers and co-operators in the things 1002 6 | after different fashions: and even~those co-operate abundantly, 1003 6 | fault with what happens and~those who try to oppose 1004 6 | those who try to oppose it and to hinder it; for the universe 1005 6 | make a right use of thee, and he will~receive thee among 1006 6 | part of the co-operators and of those whose~labours conduce 1007 6 | such a part as the mean~and ridiculous verse in the 1008 6 | Fruit-bearer (the earth)? And how is it with respect~to 1009 6 | are they not different and yet they work~together to 1010 6 | have determined about me and about the things which must~ 1011 6 | deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why~ 1012 6 | about the whole at least,~and the things which happen 1013 6 | to accept with pleasure and to be content with~them. 1014 6 | if the gods were~present and lived with us- but if however 1015 6 | determine about~myself, and I can inquire about that 1016 6 | about that which is useful; and that is~useful to every 1017 6 | to his own constitution and~nature. But my nature is 1018 6 | But my nature is rational and social; and my city and 1019 6 | is rational and social; and my city and country,~so 1020 6 | and social; and my city and country,~so far as I am 1021 6 | thee in the amphitheatre and such places, that~the continual 1022 6 | sight of the same things and the uniformity make the~ 1023 6 | above, below, are the same and from the same. How long 1024 6 | continually that all kinds of men and of all kinds of pursuits~ 1025 6 | of all kinds of pursuits~and of all nations are dead, 1026 6 | down even to~Philistion and Phoebus and Origanion. Now 1027 6 | to~Philistion and Phoebus and Origanion. Now turn thy 1028 6 | are~so many great orators, and so many noble philosophers, 1029 6 | many heroes of former days, and so many~generals after them, 1030 6 | many~generals after them, and tyrants; besides these, 1031 6 | Hipparchus, Archimedes, and other men of acute natural 1032 6 | mockers even of~the perishable and ephemeral life of man, as 1033 6 | life of man, as Menippus and such as~are like him. As 1034 6 | harm then is this to them; and what to those whose names~ 1035 6 | to~pass thy life in truth and justice, with a benevolent 1036 6 | disposition even~to liars and unjust men.~ When thou wishest 1037 6 | instance, the activity of one, and the~modesty of another, 1038 6 | the~modesty of another, and the liberality of a third, 1039 6 | the liberality of a third, and some other good~quality 1040 6 | of those who live~with us and present themselves in abundance, 1041 6 | weighest only~so many litrae and not three hundred. Be not 1042 6 | live only so many years and not more; for as thou art~ 1043 6 | betake thyself to contentment and~tranquility, and at the 1044 6 | contentment and~tranquility, and at the same time employ 1045 6 | exercise of some other virtue; and remember that thy attempt 1046 6 | activity to be his own~good; and he who loves pleasure, his 1047 6 | no opinion about a thing, and not to be~disturbed in our 1048 6 | what is said by another, and~as much as it is possible, 1049 6 | jaundiced honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten by mad~dogs 1050 6 | dogs water causes fear; and to little children the ball 1051 6 | whom men wish to please, and for~what objects, and by 1052 6 | please, and for~what objects, and by what kind of acts? How 1053 6 | will time cover all~things, and how many it has covered 1054 7 | which thou hast often seen. And on the~occasion of everything 1055 7 | often seen. Everywhere up and down thou wilt find~the 1056 7 | those of the~middle ages and those of our own day; with 1057 7 | own day; with which cities and houses are~filled now. There 1058 7 | things are both familiar and~short-lived.~ How can our 1059 7 | the state of thy affects, and thou~standest erect. To 1060 7 | fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying,~runnings 1061 7 | things to show~good humour and not a proud air; to understand 1062 7 | attend to what is said, and in every movement~thou must 1063 7 | must observe what is doing. And in the one thou shouldst 1064 7 | either I retire from the~work and give way to him who is able 1065 7 | principle~can do what is now fit and useful for the general good. 1066 7 | to that which is useful and well suited to society.~ 1067 7 | been given up to~oblivion; and how many who have celebrated 1068 7 | implicated with one another, and the bond is holy;~and there 1069 7 | another, and the bond is holy;~and there is hardly anything 1070 7 | have been co-ordinated, and they combine to form the 1071 7 | universe made up of all things, and~one God who pervades all 1072 7 | who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, 1073 7 | things, and one substance, and one law, one~common reason 1074 7 | all intelligent animals, and one truth; if indeed~there 1075 7 | which are of the same~stock and participate in the same 1076 7 | substance of the whole;~and everything formal (causal) 1077 7 | into the~universal reason; and the memory of everything 1078 7 | act is according to nature and~according to reason.~ Be 1079 7 | constituted for one co-operation. And the perception of this will~ 1080 7 | as a thing of propriety, and~not yet as doing good to 1081 7 | an evil, am not injured. And it is in my power not to 1082 7 | says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.~ The ruling 1083 7 | that is suffer nothing, and let it speak, if it suffers.~ 1084 7 | makes a want~for itself; and therefore it is both free 1085 7 | both free from perturbation and~unimpeded, if it does not 1086 7 | if it does not disturb and impede itself.~ Eudaemonia ( 1087 7 | to the universal nature?~And canst thou take a bath unless 1088 7 | wood undergoes a change? And~canst thou be nourished, 1089 7 | food undergoes a change? And can~anything else that is 1090 7 | change is just the same, and~equally necessary for the 1091 7 | their nature united with and~cooperating with the whole, 1092 7 | time already swallowed up? And let the same thought occur 1093 7 | with reference to every man and thing.~ One thing only troubles 1094 7 | forgetfulness of all things; and near the~forgetfulness of 1095 7 | even those who do wrong. And this~happens, if when they 1096 7 | thee that they are~kinsmen, and that they do wrong through 1097 7 | wrong through ignorance and unintentionally,~and that 1098 7 | ignorance and unintentionally,~and that soon both of you will 1099 7 | soon both of you will die; and above all, that the wrong-doer~ 1100 7 | wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this 1101 7 | then for something else; and each~of these things subsists 1102 7 | all comeliness dies away, and at last is so~completely 1103 7 | things which~thou seest, and out of their substance will 1104 7 | will make other things, and~again other things from 1105 7 | this, thou wilt pity him, and wilt neither wonder nor 1106 7 | thou hast select the best, and then reflect how~eagerly 1107 7 | when it does what is just,~and so secures tranquility.~ 1108 7 | thee or~to another. Divide and distribute every object 1109 7 | into the causal~(formal) and the material. Think of thy 1110 7 | the things that are doing and the things which do them.~ 1111 7 | thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference~ 1112 7 | with simplicity and modesty and with indifference~towards 1113 7 | which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind.~Follow 1114 7 | says that Law rules all.- And it is enough to~remember 1115 7 | long time is tolerable; and the mind maintains its own~ 1116 7 | by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not~ 1117 7 | observe what~they are, and what kind of things they 1118 7 | kind of things they avoid, and what kind of~things they 1119 7 | kind of~things they pursue. And consider that as the heaps 1120 7 | who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all~time 1121 7 | takes a view of all~time and of all substance, dost thou 1122 7 | It is royal to do good and to be abused.~ It is a base 1123 7 | countenance to be obedient and to~regulate and compose 1124 7 | obedient and to~regulate and compose itself as the mind 1125 7 | itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not~to be regulated 1126 7 | mind not~to be regulated and composed by itself.~ ~ It 1127 7 | To the immortal gods and us give joy.~ ~ Life must 1128 7 | If gods care not for me and for my children,~ There 1129 7 | For the good is with me, and the just.~ ~ No joining 1130 7 | hazard of life or death,~and should not rather look to 1131 7 | what is just or unjust, and the works of a good or a 1132 7 | opinion he ought to stay and to abide the~hazard, taking 1133 7 | whether that which is noble and good is~not something different 1134 7 | something different from saving and being saved; for as to a 1135 7 | dismissed from the thoughts: and there~must be no love of 1136 7 | intrust~them to the deity and believe what the women say, 1137 7 | wert going~along with them; and constantly consider the 1138 7 | a mixture of all things and an~orderly combination of 1139 7 | certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that 1140 7 | unsentient elements.~ ~ With food and drinks and cunning magic 1141 7 | With food and drinks and cunning magic arts~ Turning 1142 7 | has sent~ We must endure, and toil without complaining.~ ~ 1143 7 | which is common~to gods and men, there we have nothing 1144 7 | activity which is successful and~proceeds according to our 1145 7 | be~suspected.~ Everywhere and at all times it is in thy 1146 7 | in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those~ 1147 7 | those~who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon 1148 7 | things which happen to thee, and thy~own nature through the 1149 7 | according to its constitution; and all~other things have been 1150 7 | constitution is the social. And~the second is not to yield 1151 7 | peculiar office of the rational and intelligent motion to~circumscribe 1152 7 | to~circumscribe itself, and never to be overpowered 1153 7 | motion claims superiority and does not permit itself to 1154 7 | overpowered by the others. And with good reason, for it 1155 7 | constitution is freedom from error and from deception. Let then 1156 7 | these things go straight on, and it~has what is its own.~ 1157 7 | Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life 1158 7 | up to~the present time; and live according to nature 1159 7 | only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread~ 1160 7 | the~same things happened, and how they were vexed, and 1161 7 | and how they were vexed, and treated them as~strange 1162 7 | them as~strange things, and found fault with them: and 1163 7 | and found fault with them: and now where are they?~Nowhere. 1164 7 | to act in the same way? And why~dost thou not leave 1165 7 | to~those who cause them and those who are moved by them? 1166 7 | those who are moved by them? And why art thou~not altogether 1167 7 | thou wilt use them well, and they~will be a material 1168 7 | Only attend to thyself, and~resolve to be a good man 1169 7 | every act which thou doest: and~remember...~ Look within. 1170 7 | is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble~up, 1171 7 | body ought to be compact, and to show no irregularity 1172 7 | expression of intelligence and propriety, that~ought to 1173 7 | that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets~which 1174 7 | onsets~which are sudden and unexpected.~ Constantly 1175 7 | approbation thou wishest to~have, and what ruling principles they 1176 7 | sources of their opinions and~appetites.~ Every soul, 1177 7 | it is deprived of justice and~temperance and benevolence 1178 7 | of justice and~temperance and benevolence and everything 1179 7 | temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. 1180 7 | that it~has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to 1181 7 | nothing to it in imagination: and~remember this too, that 1182 7 | as excessive~drowsiness, and the being scorched by heat, 1183 7 | being scorched by heat, and the having no~appetite. 1184 7 | died a more noble~death, and disputed more skilfully 1185 7 | skilfully with the sophists, and passed the~night in the 1186 7 | cold with more endurance, and that when he was bid to~ 1187 7 | it more noble to refuse, and~that he walked in a swaggering 1188 7 | that Socrates possessed, and if he~was able to be content 1189 7 | with being just towards men and pious towards~the gods, 1190 7 | of circumscribing~thyself and of bringing under subjection 1191 7 | possible to be a divine man and to be recognised~as such 1192 7 | Always bear this in mind; and another thing too,~that 1193 7 | for living a happy life. And~because thou hast despaired 1194 7 | becoming a dialectician and skilled~in the knowledge 1195 7 | hope~of being both free and modest and social and obedient 1196 7 | being both free and modest and social and obedient to God.~ 1197 7 | free and modest and social and obedient to God.~ It is 1198 7 | as much as they choose, and even if wild beasts tear 1199 7 | maintaining itself~in tranquility and in a just judgement of all 1200 7 | of all surrounding things and~in a ready use of the objects 1201 7 | be of a different kind; and the use shall say to that~ 1202 7 | for virtue~both rational and political, and in a word, 1203 7 | rational and political, and in a word, for the exercise 1204 7 | relationship either to God or man, and is neither new nor difficult 1205 7 | difficult to~handle, but usual and apt matter to work on.~ 1206 7 | passing every~day as the last, and in being neither violently 1207 7 | continually men such as they are and so many~of them bad; and 1208 7 | and so many~of them bad; and besides this, they also 1209 7 | wearied of~enduring the bad, and this too when thou art one 1210 7 | Whatever the rational and political (social) faculty 1211 7 | thou hast done a good act and another has received it, 1212 8 | but both to many others and to thyself it is plain that 1213 8 | reputation of a philosopher; and thy~plan of life also opposes 1214 8 | thou shalt seem to others,~and be content if thou shalt 1215 8 | Observe then what it wills, and let nothing else~distract 1216 8 | from which come his affects and his acts. What~principles? 1217 8 | Those which relate to good and bad: the belief that~there 1218 8 | temperate, manly, free; and that there is nothing bad, 1219 8 | repent of it? A little time and I am dead, and all is~gone. 1220 8 | little time and I am dead, and all is~gone. What more do 1221 8 | intelligent living being, and a social being, and one 1222 8 | being, and a social being, and one who is under the~same 1223 8 | law with God?~ Alexander and Gaius and Pompeius, what 1224 8 | God?~ Alexander and Gaius and Pompeius, what are they 1225 8 | comparison with~Diogenes and Heraclitus and Socrates? 1226 8 | Diogenes and Heraclitus and Socrates? For they were 1227 8 | acquainted with~things, and their causes (forms), and 1228 8 | and their causes (forms), and their matter, and the ruling~ 1229 8 | forms), and their matter, and the ruling~principles of 1230 8 | things had they to care for, and to how many things were 1231 8 | nature of the universal; and in a little time thou~wilt 1232 8 | time thou~wilt be nobody and nowhere, like Hadrian and 1233 8 | and nowhere, like Hadrian and Augustus. In the next~place 1234 8 | thy business look at it, and~at the same time remembering 1235 8 | thy duty to be a good man, and~what man's nature demands, 1236 8 | that without turning aside; and speak as~it seems to thee 1237 8 | with a good disposition and~with modesty and without 1238 8 | disposition and~with modesty and without hypocrisy.~ The 1239 8 | to take them~away hence, and to carry them there. All 1240 8 | it goes on its way~well; and a rational nature goes on 1241 8 | nothing false or uncertain, and when it directs its~movements 1242 8 | movements to social acts only, and when it confines its desires 1243 8 | it confines its desires and~aversions to the things 1244 8 | which are in its power, and when it is~satisfied with 1245 8 | not perception or reason, and is subject to be impeded; 1246 8 | subject to impediments, and is~intelligent and just, 1247 8 | impediments, and is~intelligent and just, since it gives to 1248 8 | everything in equal portions~and according to its worth, 1249 8 | cause (form),~activity, and incident. But examine, not 1250 8 | parts together of one thing and comparing them~with all 1251 8 | be superior to~pleasure and pain: thou hast leisure 1252 8 | superior to love of fame,~and not to be vexed at stupid 1253 8 | not to be vexed at stupid and ungrateful people, nay even 1254 8 | must be something useful, and~the perfect good man should 1255 8 | constitution? What is~its substance and material? And what its causal 1256 8 | substance and material? And what its causal nature ( 1257 8 | causal nature (or form)?~And what is it doing in the 1258 8 | is it doing in the world? And how long does it subsist?~ 1259 8 | according to thy constitution and according to human nature 1260 8 | more~peculiarly its own, and more suitable to its nature, 1261 8 | suitable to its nature, and indeed also~more agreeable.~ 1262 8 | more agreeable.~ Constantly and, if it be possible, on the 1263 8 | principles of Physic, of~Ethic, and of Dialectic.~ Whatever 1264 8 | has this man about good and bad? For if with respect 1265 8 | with respect to~pleasure and pain and the causes of each, 1266 8 | respect to~pleasure and pain and the causes of each, and 1267 8 | and the causes of each, and with respect to fame and~ 1268 8 | and with respect to fame and~ignominy, death and life, 1269 8 | fame and~ignominy, death and life, he has such and such 1270 8 | death and life, he has such and such opinions, it will~seem 1271 8 | strange to me, if he does such and such~things; and I shall 1272 8 | does such and such~things; and I shall bear in mind that 1273 8 | the world produces such and~such things of which it 1274 8 | which it is productive; and for the physician and the~ 1275 8 | productive; and for the physician and the~helmsman it is a shame 1276 8 | that to change thy opinion and to follow him who corrects~ 1277 8 | according to~thy own movement and judgement, and indeed according 1278 8 | movement and judgement, and indeed according to thy 1279 8 | here,~it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper 1280 8 | elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too 1281 8 | universe and of thyself. And these too change, and~they 1282 8 | thyself. And these too change, and~they murmur not.~ Everything 1283 8 | I am for some purpose, and the rest~of the gods will 1284 8 | end than to the~beginning and the continuance, just like 1285 8 | or even to have fallen? And what good is it to the bubble~ 1286 8 | it (the body) inside out, and see what kind of thing it 1287 8 | what kind of thing it is; and~when it has grown old, what 1288 8 | kind of thing it becomes, and when it is~diseased.~ Short-lived 1289 8 | Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and the rememberer~ 1290 8 | praiser and the praised, and the rememberer~and the remembered: 1291 8 | praised, and the rememberer~and the remembered: and all 1292 8 | rememberer~and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this 1293 8 | this part of the~world; and not even here do all agree, 1294 8 | not any one with himself:~and the whole earth too is a 1295 8 | happen to me? I receive it and refer it to~the gods, and 1296 8 | and refer it to~the gods, and the source of all things, 1297 8 | so is every part of life and everything.~ Lucilla saw 1298 8 | Lucilla saw Verus die, and then Lucilla died. Secunda 1299 8 | Secunda saw Maximus~die, and then Secunda died. Epitynchanus 1300 8 | Epitynchanus saw Diotimus die, and~Epitynchanus died. Antoninus 1301 8 | Antoninus saw Faustina die, and then Antoninus~died. Such 1302 8 | Celer saw Hadrian die, and then Celer~died. And those 1303 8 | die, and then Celer~died. And those sharp-witted men, 1304 8 | sharp-witted men, Charax and~Demetrius the Platonist 1305 8 | Demetrius the Platonist and Eudaemon, and any one else 1306 8 | Platonist and Eudaemon, and any one else like them.~ 1307 8 | remembered~even for a short time, and others have become the heroes 1308 8 | become the heroes of fables,~and again others have disappeared 1309 8 | extinguished, or be removed and placed~elsewhere.~ It is 1310 8 | of~plausible appearances, and to take a survey of the 1311 8 | the nature of the~universe and of the things which happen 1312 8 | three relations between thee and other things: the one~to 1313 8 | all things come to all; and the third to those who live~ 1314 8 | maintain its own serenity and tranquility, and not to 1315 8 | serenity and tranquility, and not to think that~pain is 1316 8 | evil. For every judgement and movement and desire and~ 1317 8 | every judgement and movement and desire and~aversion is within, 1318 8 | and movement and desire and~aversion is within, and 1319 8 | and~aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.~ 1320 8 | see what is their~nature, and I use each according to 1321 8 | Speak both in the senate and to every man, whoever he 1322 8 | Areius, Maecenas, physicians and~sacrificing priests- the 1323 8 | race, as~of the Pompeii; and that which is inscribed 1324 8 | might leave a successor; and then, that of necessity 1325 8 | well in every single act; and if~every act does its duty, 1326 8 | is possible, be content; and no one~is able to hinder 1327 8 | way of thy acting justly and soberly and considerately.- 1328 8 | acting justly and soberly and considerately.- But perhaps~ 1329 8 | acquiescing~in the hindrance and by being content to transfer 1330 8 | that which was hindered, and one which~will adapt itself 1331 8 | prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to~let it go.~ 1332 8 | content with what happens, and~separates himself from others, 1333 8 | after it has been~separated and cut asunder, to come together 1334 8 | all from the universal; and when he has~been separated, 1335 8 | has allowed him to return and to be united and to~resume 1336 8 | return and to be united and to~resume his place as a 1337 8 | universal nature converts and fixes in its~predestined 1338 8 | which stands in the way and opposes it,~and makes such 1339 8 | the way and opposes it,~and makes such things a part 1340 8 | hindrance its own material, and to use it for~such purposes 1341 8 | this which is intolerable and past bearing? For~thou wilt 1342 8 | only circumscribest~it, and chidest thy mind, if it 1343 8 | dead be conscious of it?~And if the dead were conscious, 1344 8 | would they be pleased? And if they~were pleased, would 1345 8 | should first become old women and~old men and then die? What 1346 8 | become old women and~old men and then die? What then would 1347 8 | All this is foul smell and blood in a bag.~ If thou 1348 8 | thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the~philosopher.~ 1349 8 | opposed to love~of pleasure, and that is temperance.~ If 1350 8 | evil to the~animal nature. And something else also is equally 1351 8 | is equally an impediment and an~evil to the constitution 1352 8 | happen to men, but looking at and~receiving all with welcome 1353 8 | receiving all with welcome eyes and using everything according 1354 8 | whom they cannot bear now; and both~are mortal. And what 1355 8 | now; and both~are mortal. And what is it in any way to 1356 8 | opinion about~thee?~ Take me and cast me where thou wilt; 1357 8 | content, if it can feel and act~conformably to its proper 1358 8 | my soul should be unhappy and worse than it was,~depressed, 1359 8 | shrinking, affrighted? And what wilt thou find~which 1360 8 | thing~both what is usual and natural, why shouldst thou 1361 8 | own judgement about it. And it is in thy~power to wipe 1362 8 | correcting thy~opinion? And even if thou art pained 1363 8 | who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the~ 1364 8 | anything aided by~reason and deliberately? Therefore 1365 8 | which he can~fly for, refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. 1366 8 | but he who has seen it and does~not fly to this refuge 1367 8 | by the first appearances, and add nothing thyself from~ 1368 8 | nothing thyself from~within, and then nothing happens to 1369 8 | This is enough. Do not add, And why were~such things made 1370 8 | ridiculed by a carpenter~and shoemaker if thou didst 1371 8 | their~workshop shavings and cuttings from the things 1372 8 | things which they make. And~yet they have places into 1373 8 | can throw these shavings and~cuttings, and the universal 1374 8 | these shavings and~cuttings, and the universal nature has 1375 8 | her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be~useless 1376 8 | to decay and to grow old and to be~useless she changes 1377 8 | she changes into herself, and again makes other new things~ 1378 8 | then with her own space, and her own matter and her own~ 1379 8 | space, and her own matter and her own~art.~ Neither in 1380 8 | by a limpid~pure spring, and curse it, the spring never 1381 8 | sending up~potable water; and if he should cast clay into 1382 8 | will~speedily disperse them and wash them out, and will 1383 8 | them and wash them out, and will not be at all~polluted. 1384 8 | possess a perpetual fountain and not a~mere well? By forming 1385 8 | contentment, simplicity and modesty.~ He who does not 1386 8 | does not know where he is.~And he who does not know for 1387 8 | less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for 1388 8 | at all to the universe; and~particularly, the wickedness 1389 8 | indifferent as his poor breath and flesh. For though we are 1390 8 | appears to be poured down, and in all directions indeed 1391 8 | extended in a right~line, and as it were is divided when 1392 8 | which stands in the way and intercepts the air beyond; 1393 8 | the~light remains fixed and does not glide or fall off. 1394 8 | ought to~be the out-pouring and diffusion of the understanding, 1395 8 | diffusion of the understanding, and it should~in no way be an 1396 8 | effusion, but an extension, and it should make no~violent 1397 8 | fall down, but be fixed and enlighten that which receives~ 1398 8 | wilt~thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another 1399 8 | different kind of living being and thou wilt~not cease to live.~ 1400 8 | when it exercises caution and when it is employed about~ 1401 8 | straight onward not the less, and to its object.~ Enter into 1402 8 | every man's ruling faculty; and also let every other~man 1403 9 | towards the highest divinity. And he too who lies is guilty 1404 9 | nature of things~that are; and things that are have a relation 1405 9 | that~come into existence. And further, this universal 1406 9 | universal nature is named~truth, and is the prime cause of all 1407 9 | acts unjustly~by deceiving; and he also who lies unintentionally, 1408 9 | with the universal nature, and inasmuch as he~disturbs 1409 9 | distinguish falsehood from truth. And~indeed he who pursues pleasure 1410 9 | pursues pleasure as good, and avoids pain as evil, is~ 1411 9 | assigns things to the bad~and the good contrary to their 1412 9 | the enjoyment of pleasure and possess the things which 1413 9 | have pain for their share and the things which~cause pain. 1414 9 | things which~cause pain. And further, he who is afraid 1415 9 | will happen in the world, and~even this is impiety. And 1416 9 | and~even this is impiety. And he who pursues pleasure 1417 9 | abstain~from injustice, and this is plainly impiety. 1418 9 | of the~same mind with it, and equally affected. With respect 1419 9 | With respect to pain, then,~and pleasure, or death and life, 1420 9 | and pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, 1421 9 | death and life, or honour and dishonour, which the~universal 1422 9 | manifestly acting impiously. And I say that the universal 1423 9 | produced in continuous series and to those who come~after 1424 9 | things which~were to be, and having determined powers 1425 9 | powers productive of beings and of~changes and of such like 1426 9 | of beings and of~changes and of such like successions.~ 1427 9 | having had any taste of lying and hypocrisy and luxury and 1428 9 | taste of lying and hypocrisy and luxury and pride.~However 1429 9 | and hypocrisy and luxury and pride.~However to breathe 1430 9 | determined~to abide with vice, and has not experience yet induced 1431 9 | than any such corruption and change of~this atmosphere 1432 9 | such as it is to be~young and to grow old, and to increase 1433 9 | be~young and to grow old, and to increase and to reach 1434 9 | grow old, and to increase and to reach maturity, and to~ 1435 9 | increase and to reach maturity, and to~have teeth and beard 1436 9 | maturity, and to~have teeth and beard and grey hairs, and 1437 9 | to~have teeth and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, 1438 9 | and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, and to be~pregnant 1439 9 | grey hairs, and to beget, and to be~pregnant and to bring 1440 9 | beget, and to be~pregnant and to bring forth, and all 1441 9 | pregnant and to bring forth, and all the other natural operations~ 1442 9 | art going to be removed, and the~morals of those with 1443 9 | thy duty to care~for them and to bear with them gently; 1444 9 | to bear with them gently; and yet to remember that thy~ 1445 9 | draw~us the contrary way and attach us to life, to be 1446 9 | founded on understanding, and thy present~conduct directed 1447 9 | directed to social good, and thy present disposition 1448 9 | are of an earthy nature, and~we see by one light, and 1449 9 | and~we see by one light, and breathe one air, all of 1450 9 | have the~faculty of vision and all that have life.~ All 1451 9 | is liquid flows together, and everything which is of an 1452 9 | something to keep them asunder,~and the application of force. 1453 9 | more~ready to mingle with and to be fused with that which 1454 9 | we find swarms of bees, and~herds of cattle, and the 1455 9 | bees, and~herds of cattle, and the nurture of young birds, 1456 9 | nurture of young birds, and in a manner,~loves; for 1457 9 | animals there are souls, and that power which~brings 1458 9 | in the superior degree,~and in such a way as never has 1459 9 | are political~communities and friendships, and families 1460 9 | communities and friendships, and families and meetings of 1461 9 | friendships, and families and meetings of people;~and 1462 9 | and meetings of people;~and in wars, treaties and armistices. 1463 9 | people;~and in wars, treaties and armistices. But in the things 1464 9 | forgotten this mutual desire and inclination, and~in them 1465 9 | desire and inclination, and~in them alone the property 1466 9 | this union, they are caught and~held by it, for their nature 1467 9 | is too strong for them; and thou wilt see~what I say, 1468 9 | from other men.~ Both man and God and the universe produce 1469 9 | other men.~ Both man and God and the universe produce fruit; 1470 9 | these~terms to the vine and like things, this is nothing. 1471 9 | produces~fruit both for all and for itself, and there are 1472 9 | for all and for itself, and there are produced from 1473 9 | to thee for this~purpose. And the gods, too, are indulgent 1474 9 | indulgent to such persons; and for~some purposes they even 1475 9 | reputation;~so kind they are. And it is in thy power also; 1476 9 | to put~thyself in motion and to check thyself, as the 1477 9 | not outside, but within and in my opinions.~ All things 1478 9 | familiar in experience, and ephemeral in~time, and worthless 1479 9 | and ephemeral in~time, and worthless in the matter. 1480 9 | in activity lie the evil and the good of the~rational 1481 9 | animal, just as his virtue and his vice lie not in~passivity, 1482 9 | men's leading principles, and thou wilt see~what judges 1483 9 | judges thou art afraid of, and what kind of judges they 1484 9 | All things are changing: and thou thyself art in continuous 1485 9 | art in continuous mutation~and in a manner in continuous 1486 9 | continuous destruction, and the whole universe too.~ 1487 9 | cessation from movement and opinion, and in~a sense 1488 9 | from movement and opinion, and in~a sense their death, 1489 9 | thy life under~thy father; and as thou findest many other 1490 9 | findest many other differences and changes and~terminations, 1491 9 | differences and changes and~terminations, ask thyself, 1492 9 | neither are the termination and cessation and change of 1493 9 | termination and cessation and change of thy~whole life 1494 9 | examine thy own ruling faculty and that of the universe~and 1495 9 | and that of the universe~and that of thy neighbour: thy 1496 9 | thou mayest make it just:~and that of the universe, that 1497 9 | of what thou art a~part; and that of thy neighbour, that 1498 9 | ignorantly or with knowledge, and that thou mayest also~consider 1499 9 | tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be 1500 9 | not allow it to be one, and~it is of the nature of a


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