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1501 9 |          Quarrels of little children and their sports, and poor spirits~
1502 9 |           children and their sports, and poor spirits~carrying about
1503 9 |          bodies, such is everything; and so what is~exhibited in
1504 9 |            of the form of an object, and detach it~altogether from
1505 9 |              from its material part, and then contemplate it; then~
1506 9 |             souls, penetrate within, and~see what kind of men they
1507 9 |             nature they are friends. And the gods too aid them in
1508 9 |            universe are the same, up and down~from age to age. And
1509 9 |            and down~from age to age. And either the universal intelligence
1510 9 |           for every separate effect, and if this is so, be thou~content
1511 9 |          puts~itself in motion once, and everything else comes by
1512 9 |         there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not
1513 9 |             earth, too, will~change, and the things also which result
1514 9 |         continue~to change for ever, and these again for ever. For
1515 9 |              reflects on~the changes and transformations which follow
1516 9 |         another like wave~after wave and their rapidity, he will
1517 9 |        engaged in matters political, and, as they suppose, are~playing
1518 9 |               if it is in thy power, and~do not look about thee to
1519 9 |         smallest thing goes~on well, and consider such an event to
1520 9 |           can~change men's opinions? And without a change of opinions
1521 9 |            pretend to obey?~Come now and tell me of Alexander and
1522 9 |             and tell me of Alexander and Philip and Demetrius of~
1523 9 |              of Alexander and Philip and Demetrius of~Phalerum. They
1524 9 |              common nature required, and trained themselves accordingly.
1525 9 |              to imitate~them. Simple and modest is the work of philosophy.
1526 9 |            me not aside~to indolence and pride.~ Look down from above
1527 9 |           the countless herds of men and their~countless solemnities,
1528 9 |         their~countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings
1529 9 |           varied voyagings in storms~and calms, and the differences
1530 9 |       voyagings in storms~and calms, and the differences among those
1531 9 |             born, who live~together, and die. And consider, too,
1532 9 |              live~together, and die. And consider, too, the life
1533 9 |             by others in~olden time, and the life of those who will
1534 9 |            who will live after thee, and the~life now lived among
1535 9 |             among barbarous nations, and how many know not even thy~
1536 9 |              know not even thy~name, and how many will soon forget
1537 9 |            many will soon forget it, and how they who perhaps now~
1538 9 |           will very soon blame thee, and that neither a~posthumous
1539 9 |             from the external cause; and let there be justice in
1540 9 |            is, let there be~movement and action terminating in this,
1541 9 |             entirely in thy opinion; and thou~wilt then gain for
1542 9 |          whole~universe in thy mind, and by contemplating the eternity
1543 9 |  contemplating the eternity of time, and~observing the rapid change
1544 9 |           from birth to dissolution, and the illimitable time before~
1545 9 |           seest will quickly perish, and those who have been~spectators
1546 9 |           will very soon perish too. And he who~dies at the extremest
1547 9 |            men's leading principles, and about what kind of~things
1548 9 |             of~things are they busy, and for what kind of reasons
1549 9 |              of reasons do they love and~honour? Imagine that thou
1550 9 |           nature~delights in change, and in obedience to her all
1551 9 |            things are now done~well, and from eternity have been
1552 9 |              been done in like form, and will be~such to time without
1553 9 |            That all things~have been and all things always will be
1554 9 |           things always will be bad, and that no power has~ever been
1555 9 |            callosities of the earth; and gold and silver, the sediments;
1556 9 |   callosities of the earth; and gold and silver, the sediments; and~
1557 9 |           and silver, the sediments; and~garments, only bits of hair;
1558 9 |         garments, only bits of hair; and purple dye, blood; and everything~
1559 9 |               and purple dye, blood; and everything~else is of the
1560 9 |            else is of the same kind. And that which is of the nature
1561 9 |         Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.
1562 9 |          wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art~thou
1563 9 |           become~at last more simple and better. It is the same whether
1564 9 |          from one intelligent source and come~together as in one
1565 9 |             together as in one body, and the part ought not to find
1566 9 |             or there are only atoms,~and nothing else than mixture
1567 9 |            nothing else than mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art
1568 9 |              a beast,~dost thou herd and feed with the rest?~ Either
1569 9 |          than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not~in
1570 9 |            what is not~in thy power? And who has told thee that the
1571 9 |             to pray for such~things, and thou wilt see. One man prays
1572 9 |           turn thy prayers this way, and see what~comes.~ Epicurus
1573 9 |              free from perturbations and maintain its proper good.
1574 9 |             but my life went on well and~happily. Do, then, the same
1575 9 |          sickness, if thou~art sick, and in any other circumstances;
1576 9 |             which thou art now doing and on the instrument by which
1577 9 |            in the case of the knave, and the faithless man, and of~
1578 9 |               and the faithless man, and of~every man who does wrong
1579 9 |            the stupid man, mildness, and against another kind of
1580 9 |             of man some other~power. And in all cases it is possible
1581 9 |           who errs misses his object~and is gone astray. Besides
1582 9 |           that~which is evil to thee and harmful has its foundation
1583 9 |         foundation only in the mind.~And what harm is done or what
1584 9 |             would~commit this error, and yet thou hast forgotten
1585 9 |              yet thou hast forgotten and art amazed that~he has erred.
1586 9 |           conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid
1587 9 |            for a particular purpose,~and by working according to
1588 9 |     conformably to~his constitution, and he gets what is his own.~
1589 10|               my soul, never be good and simple and one and~naked,
1590 10|             never be good and simple and one and~naked, more manifest
1591 10|              good and simple and one and~naked, more manifest than
1592 10|          never enjoy an affectionate and contented disposition? Wilt
1593 10|              Wilt thou never~be full and without a want of any kind,
1594 10|          with thy present condition, and pleased with all that is~
1595 10|              all that is~about thee, and wilt thou convince thyself
1596 10|            that thou hast everything~and that it comes from the gods,
1597 10|         everything is well for thee, and~will be well whatever shall
1598 10|          whatever shall please them, and whatever they shall~give
1599 10|       perfect living being, the good and~just and beautiful, which
1600 10|             being, the good and~just and beautiful, which generates
1601 10|           beautiful, which generates and holds together all things,
1602 10|           holds together all things, and~contains and embraces all
1603 10|             all things, and~contains and embraces all things which
1604 10|         dwell in community with gods and men as neither to find fault~
1605 10|              nature only: then do it and accept it, if thy nature,
1606 10|            not be made worse by it.~ And next thou must observe what
1607 10|             thou~art a living being. And all this thou mayest allow
1608 10|               Use these rules, then, and trouble~thyself about nothing
1609 10|         opinion to make it endurable and tolerable, by~thinking that
1610 10|        mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him his error.~But
1611 10|              thee from all~eternity; and the implication of causes
1612 10|             the~thread of thy being, and of that which is incident
1613 10|            is not for its advantage; and all~natures indeed have
1614 10|             everything that happens. And inasmuch as I am in a manner~
1615 10|           the same kind with myself, and I~shall turn an my efforts
1616 10|              to the common interest, and divert them~from the contrary.
1617 10|              to his~fellow-citizens, and is content with whatever
1618 10|            is naturally both an evil and a necessity for the parts,
1619 10|              being~subject to change and constituted so as to perish
1620 10|          which are~parts of herself, and to make them subject to
1621 10|            make them subject to evil and of necessity~fall into evil,
1622 10|              as an efficient power), and should~speak of these things
1623 10|            nature subject to change, and at the same time to be surprised
1624 10|              the solid to~the earthy and from the airy to the aerial,
1625 10|          renewed by eternal changes. And do not imagine~that the
1626 10|           not imagine~that the solid and the airy part belong to
1627 10|             accretion only yesterday and~the day before, as one may
1628 10|           one may say, from the food and the air which is~inspired.
1629 10|       rational,~a man of equanimity, and magnanimous, take care that
1630 10|              not~change these names; and if thou shouldst lose them,
1631 10|              quickly return~to them. And remember that the term Rational
1632 10|     attention to every several thing and freedom from~negligence;
1633 10|             freedom from~negligence; and that Equanimity is the voluntary
1634 10|           thee by the common nature; and that~Magnanimity is the
1635 10|             sensations of the flesh, and above that poor~thing called
1636 10|              poor~thing called fame, and death, and all such things.
1637 10|              called fame, and death, and all such things. If, then,
1638 10|          thou wilt be another person and~wilt enter on another life.
1639 10|             thou hast~hitherto been, and to be tom in pieces and
1640 10|              and to be tom in pieces and defiled in such a life,~
1641 10|       character of a very stupid man and one overfond of his life,~
1642 10|            one overfond of his life,~and like those half-devoured
1643 10|           though~covered with wounds and gore, still intreat to be
1644 10|              state to the~same claws and bites. Therefore fix thyself
1645 10|       possession of these~few names: and if thou art able to abide
1646 10|             thou fallest out of them and dost not maintain thy hold,~
1647 10|         passion, but with simplicity and~freedom and modesty, after
1648 10|          with simplicity and~freedom and modesty, after doing this
1649 10|           thou~rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be
1650 10|             be made like themselves; and if thou~rememberest that
1651 10|              fig-tree is a fig-tree, and~that what does the work
1652 10|              work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work~
1653 10|              work~of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work
1654 10|            nature dost thou imagine, and how many dost thou neglect?
1655 10|            is~thy duty so to look on and so to do everything, that
1656 10|          circumstances is perfected, and the~contemplative faculty
1657 10|  contemplative faculty is exercised, and the confidence which comes~
1658 10|            simplicity, when~gravity, and when the knowledge of every
1659 10|             what it~is in substance, and what place it has in the
1660 10|              it has in the universe, and how long~it is formed to
1661 10|           long~it is formed to exist and of what things it is compounded,
1662 10|             things it is compounded, and to whom~it can belong, and
1663 10|           and to whom~it can belong, and who are able both to give
1664 10|             are able both to give it and take it away?~ A spider
1665 10|            when it has caught a fly, and another when he~has caught
1666 10|              has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken
1667 10|              a little fish in~a net, and another when he has taken
1668 10|             he has taken wild boars, and another when he~has taken
1669 10|             when he~has taken bears, and another when he has taken
1670 10|             change into~one another, and constantly attend to it,
1671 10|             constantly attend to it, and exercise thyself about~this
1672 10|            man has put off the body, and as he sees that he~must,
1673 10|               go away from among men and leave~everything here, he
1674 10|            doing in all his~actions, and in everything else that
1675 10|          justly in what he now~does, and being satisfied with what
1676 10|              is now assigned to him; and he~lays aside all distracting
1677 10|           lays aside all distracting and busy pursuits, and desires
1678 10|       distracting and busy pursuits, and desires nothing else~than
1679 10|              course through the law, and by~accomplishing the straight
1680 10|       inquire what ought to be done? And if thou seest clear, go
1681 10|             dost not see clear, stop~and take the best advisers.
1682 10|           best to reach this object, and~if thou dost fail, let thy
1683 10|              things is both tranquil and active at the same~time,
1684 10|             active at the same~time, and also cheerful and collected.~
1685 10|              time, and also cheerful and collected.~ Inquire of thyself
1686 10|            another does what is just and~right. It will make no difference.~
1687 10|              such as they~are at bed and at board, and thou hast
1688 10|             are at bed and at board, and thou hast not forgotten
1689 10|              forgotten what they do, and~what they avoid and what
1690 10|              do, and~what they avoid and what they pursue, and how
1691 10|          avoid and what they pursue, and how they steal and how~they
1692 10|           pursue, and how they steal and how~they rob, not with hands
1693 10|             they rob, not with hands and feet, but with their most
1694 10|        happiness)?~ To her who gives and takes back all, to nature,
1695 10|            the man who is~instructed and modest says, Give what thou
1696 10|            take back what thou~wilt. And he says this not proudly,
1697 10|              proudly, but obediently and well pleased~with her.~
1698 10|        contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance,~
1699 10|              the whole of substance,~and consider that all individual
1700 10|      substance are a grain of~a fig, and as to time, the turning
1701 10|              everything that exists, and observe that it is already
1702 10|            is already in~dissolution and in change, and as it were
1703 10|           dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction
1704 10|        generating,~easing themselves and so forth. Then what kind
1705 10|              when~they are imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding
1706 10|     imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding from their~elevated
1707 10|            how many they were slaves~and for what things; and after
1708 10|          slaves~and for what things; and after a little time consider
1709 10|     universal nature~brings to each. And it is for its good at the
1710 10|             earth loves the shower"; and "the solemn aether loves":
1711 10|            the solemn aether loves": and the~universe loves to make
1712 10|          that I love as thou lovest. And is not this too said, that~"
1713 10|              Either thou livest here and hast already accustomed
1714 10|              or thou art going away, and this was thy own will; or
1715 10|              will; or thou art dying~and hast discharged thy duty.
1716 10|              land is like~any other; and that all things here are
1717 10|            ruling faculty now to me? And of what nature am I now~
1718 10|           nature am I now~making it? And for what purpose am I now
1719 10|          understanding? Is it loosed and rent asunder from social
1720 10|              life? Is it~melted into and mixed with the poor flesh
1721 10|               but the law is master,~and he who breaks the law is
1722 10|         breaks the law is a runaway. And he also who is grieved~or
1723 10|            him who rules all~things, and he is Law, and assigns to
1724 10|           all~things, and he is Law, and assigns to every man what
1725 10|              deposits seed in a womb and goes away, and then another~
1726 10|             in a womb and goes away, and then another~cause takes
1727 10|              another~cause takes it, and labours on it and makes
1728 10|          takes it, and labours on it and makes a child. What a thing
1729 10|             down through the throat,~and then another cause takes
1730 10|          then another cause takes it and makes perception and motion,
1731 10|              it and makes perception and motion, and~in fine life
1732 10|         makes perception and motion, and~in fine life and strength
1733 10|             motion, and~in fine life and strength and other things;
1734 10|            in fine life and strength and other things; how many and
1735 10|           and other things; how many and how strange I~Observe then
1736 10|       produced in such a hidden way, and~see the power just as we
1737 10|             carries things~downwards and upwards, not with the eyes,
1738 10|              in time~past also were; and consider that they will
1739 10|              will be the same again. And~place before thy eyes entire
1740 10|        before thy eyes entire dramas and stages of the same form,~
1741 10|              whole court of Hadrian, and the whole~court of Antoninus,
1742 10|            whole~court of Antoninus, and the whole court of Philip,
1743 10|              pig which is sacrificed and kicks and screams.~ Like
1744 10|              is sacrificed and kicks and screams.~ Like this pig
1745 10|          bonds~in which we are held. And consider that only to the
1746 10|    everything that thou doest, pause and~ask thyself, if death is
1747 10|            forthwith turn to thyself~and reflect in what like manner
1748 10|              or a bit of~reputation, and the like. For by attending
1749 10|            either Eutyches~or Hymen, and when thou hast seen Euphrates,
1750 10|            of Eutychion or~Silvanus, and when thou hast seen Alciphron
1751 10|              think of Tropaeophorus,~and when thou hast seen Xenophon
1752 10|           think of Crito or Severus, and when~thou hast looked on
1753 10|           think of any other Caesar, and in the~case of every one
1754 10|             at human things as smoke and~nothing at all; especially
1755 10|            of time is thy~existence? And why art thou not content
1756 10|             orderly way? What matter and opportunity for thy activity~
1757 10|              it has viewed carefully and by~examination into their
1758 10|             blazing~fire makes flame and brightness out of everything
1759 10|             of this kind about thee; and this is~altogether in thy
1760 10|          hinder thee from~being good and simple? Do thou only determine
1761 10|         power to do it or to say it, and do not make~excuses that
1762 10|            matter which is subjected~and presented to thee, the doing
1763 10|         according to his own nature.~And it is in his power everywhere.
1764 10|              things which check them and stand in the~way are many.
1765 10|           are many. But intelligence and reason are able to go through~
1766 10|        everything that opposes them, and in such manner as they are
1767 10|            they are formed by~nature and as they choose. Place before
1768 10|            down an inclined surface,~and seek for nothing further.
1769 10|               except through opinion and~the yielding of the reason
1770 10|           better, if one may say so, and more worthy of praise by~
1771 10|              use of these accidents. And finally remember that~nothing
1772 10|           does not harm law~(order); and of these things which are
1773 10|      briefest~precept is sufficient, and any common precept, to remind
1774 10|            should be free from grief and fear. For example-~ ~ Leaves,
1775 10|              also, are thy children; and leaves, too, are they who
1776 10|           they were worthy of credit and bestow their praise, or
1777 10|             curse, or secretly blame and sneer; and leaves, in like~
1778 10|            secretly blame and sneer; and leaves, in like~manner,
1779 10|              those who shall receive and transmit a man's fame to~
1780 10|             is common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and~pursuest
1781 10|        things, and yet thou avoidest and~pursuest all things as if
1782 10|              eternal. A little time, and~thou shalt close thy eyes;
1783 10|           thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee
1784 10|            to see all visible things and not to say, I~wish for green
1785 10|         condition of a diseased eye.~And the healthy hearing and
1786 10|              And the healthy hearing and smelling ought to be ready
1787 10|       perceive all~that can be heard and smelled. And the healthy
1788 10|            can be heard and smelled. And the healthy stomach ought
1789 10|         which it is formed to grind. And accordingly the healthy
1790 10|           Let my dear children live, and let all men praise whatever
1791 10|           Suppose~that he was a good and wise man, will there not
1792 10|            then when thou art dying, and thou wilt depart more contentedly~
1793 10|             striven so much, prayed, and~cared, themselves wish me
1794 10|        preserving thy own character, and friendly and benevolent~
1795 10|              character, and friendly and benevolent~and mild, and
1796 10|              friendly and benevolent~and mild, and on the other hand
1797 10|             and benevolent~and mild, and on the other hand not as
1798 10|           nature united thee to them and associated thee. But does
1799 10|              But begin with thyself, and examine thyself~first.~
1800 10|          vessel which surrounds thee and these instruments which
1801 10|        without the cause which moves and checks them than in the~
1802 10|             in the~weaver's shuttle, and the writer's pen and the
1803 10|        shuttle, and the writer's pen and the driver's whip.~
1804 11|             itself,~analyses itself, and makes itself such as it
1805 11|             for the fruits of plants and that in animals~which corresponds
1806 11|             fixed. Not as in a dance and in a~play and in such like
1807 11|             in a dance and in a~play and in such like things, where
1808 11|             short; but in every part and wherever it may be~stopped,
1809 11|              been set before it full and complete, so~that it can
1810 11|               I have what is my own. And further it traverses the~
1811 11|        traverses the~whole universe, and the surrounding vacuum,
1812 11|              the surrounding vacuum, and surveys its form,~and it
1813 11|        vacuum, and surveys its form,~and it extends itself into the
1814 11|           into the infinity of time, and embraces and~comprehends
1815 11|       infinity of time, and embraces and~comprehends the periodical
1816 11|            renovation of all things, and it~comprehends that those
1817 11|           all things which have been and~all that will be. This too
1818 11|             love of~one's neighbour, and truth and modesty, and to
1819 11|           one's neighbour, and truth and modesty, and to value nothing
1820 11|               and truth and modesty, and to value nothing more~more
1821 11|        little value on pleasing song and dancing and the~pancratium,
1822 11|            pleasing song and dancing and the~pancratium, if thou
1823 11|             into its~several sounds, and ask thyself as to each,
1824 11|            shame from confessing it: and in~the matter of dancing,
1825 11|         dancing, if at each movement and attitude thou wilt do~the
1826 11|      attitude thou wilt do~the same; and the like also in the matter
1827 11|          things, then, except virtue and the acts of virtue, remember
1828 11|              to their several parts, and by this division to come~
1829 11|           come~to value them little: and apply this rule also to
1830 11|             separated from the body, and ready either to be extinguished
1831 11|        Christians, but considerately and with dignity and in a way
1832 11|       considerately and with dignity and in a way to~persuade another,
1833 11|              be present to thy mind, and never stop~doing such good.~
1834 11|              is thy art? To be good. And how is this accomplished
1835 11|              nature of the universe,~and others about the proper
1836 11|         things which happen to them, and that it is according to~
1837 11|             for things to happen so, and that, if you are delighted
1838 11|           must be~accomplished thus, and that even they bear them
1839 11|           who cry out "O~Cithaeron." And, indeed, some things are
1840 11|         following especially:-~ ~ Me and my children if the gods
1841 11|           This has its reason too.~ ~And again-~ ~ We must not chale
1842 11|          again-~ ~ We must not chale and fret at that which happens.~ ~
1843 11|             at that which happens.~ ~And~ ~ Life's harvest reap like
1844 11|              wheat's fruitful ear.~ ~And other things of the same
1845 11|       magisterial~freedom of speech, and by its very plainness of
1846 11|              to beware of insolence; and for this purpose too~Diogenes
1847 11|           next, observe what it was,~and again, for what object the
1848 11|            whole plan of such poetry and dramaturgy, to what end
1849 11|          neighbour when he hates him and turns away from~him, and
1850 11|             and turns away from~him, and he does not know that he
1851 11|            that which is near to us, and be to come a part which
1852 11|        itself to be brought to~unity and to be restored to its former
1853 11|              together with the tree, and has continued to~have one
1854 11|           matter of steady judgement and action,~but also in the
1855 11|            from thy course of action and to~give way through fear;
1856 11|            who does it through fear, and the man who is alienated
1857 11|           who is by nature a kinsman and a friend.~ There is no nature
1858 11|            which is the most~perfect and the most comprehensive of
1859 11|        universal nature does so too. And,~indeed, hence is the origin
1860 11|            is the origin of justice, and in justice the other~virtues
1861 11|               or are easily~deceived and careless and changeable.~
1862 11|         easily~deceived and careless and changeable.~ If the things
1863 11|           come to thee, the pursuits and avoidances of~which disturb
1864 11|     judgement about them be at rest, and they will remain quiet,
1865 11|              they will remain quiet, and~thou wilt not be seen either
1866 11|              the truth of all things and the truth that is in~itself.~
1867 11|            to~it. But I will be mild and benevolent towards every
1868 11|        benevolent towards every man, and ready~to show even him his
1869 11|              my endurance, but nobly and honestly, like the great~
1870 11|              parts~ought to be such, and a man ought to be seen by
1871 11|         agreeable to thy own nature, and~art satisfied with that
1872 11|              Men despise one another and flatter one another; and
1873 11|             and flatter one another; and men wish to~raise themselves
1874 11|        themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.~
1875 11|            one another.~ How unsound and insincere is he who says,
1876 11|        lovers. The man~who is honest and good ought to be exactly
1877 11|           this most of all. The good and~simple and benevolent show
1878 11|             all. The good and~simple and benevolent show all these
1879 11|            these things in the eyes, and there~is no mistaking.~
1880 11|        things which are indifferent. And it will be~indifferent,
1881 11|              these things separately and all~together, and if it
1882 11|         separately and all~together, and if it remembers that not
1883 11|             things remain~immovable, and it is we ourselves who produce
1884 11|           the judgements about~them, and, as we may say, write them
1885 11|             power not to write them, and it being in our power, if
1886 11|             minds, to wipe them~out; and if we remember also that
1887 11|            only be for a~short time, and then life will be at an
1888 11|             nature, rejoice in them, and they will be easy to thee:
1889 11|       conformable to thy own nature, and~strive towards this, even
1890 11|           whence each thing is come, and of what it consists, and~
1891 11|             and of what it consists, and~into what it changes, and
1892 11|            and~into what it changes, and what kind of a thing it
1893 11|              be when it~has changed, and that it will sustain no
1894 11|          What is my~relation to men, and that we are made for one
1895 11|            are made for one another; and in~another respect, I was
1896 11|            the sake of the superior, and these for the sake of one~
1897 11|           they are at table, in bed, and~so forth: and particularly,
1898 11|         table, in bed, and~so forth: and particularly, under what
1899 11|        respect of~opinions they are; and as to their acts, consider
1900 11|             they do so~involuntarily and in ignorance. For as every
1901 11|           called unjust, ungrateful, and greedy, and in~a word wrong-doers
1902 11|              ungrateful, and greedy, and in~a word wrong-doers to
1903 11|             doest many things wrong, and that~thou art a man like
1904 11|          thou art a man like others; and even if thou dost abstain
1905 11|          reference to circumstances. And in short, a man must learn
1906 11|             s life~is only a moment, and after a short time we are
1907 11|            away these opinions then, and~resolve to dismiss thy judgement
1908 11|             were~something grievous, and thy anger is gone. How then
1909 11|      necessity do many things wrong, and become a~robber and everything
1910 11|           wrong, and become a~robber and everything else.~ Eighth,
1911 11|           brought on us by the anger~and vexation caused by such
1912 11|    themselves, at which~we are angry and vexed.~ Ninth, consider
1913 11|        invincible, if it be~genuine, and not an affected smile and
1914 11|            and not an affected smile and acting a part. For what
1915 11|             disposition towards him, and if, as opportunity offers,
1916 11|          thou gently~admonishest him and calmly correctest his errors
1917 11|         injuring thyself, my child.- And show him with~gentle tact
1918 11|            show him with~gentle tact and by general principles that
1919 11|          principles that this is so, and that even~bees do not do
1920 11|             nature to be gregarious. And thou must do this neither
1921 11|         reproach, but affectionately and without any~rancour in thy
1922 11|             any~rancour in thy soul; and not as if thou wert lecturing
1923 11|             either when he is alone, and if~others are present...~
1924 11|            as a~gift from the Muses, and begin at last to be a man
1925 11|         equally avoid flattering men and being veied~at them, for
1926 11|          them, for both are unsocial and lead to harm. And let this
1927 11|           unsocial and lead to harm. And let this truth be~present
1928 11|             manly, but that mildness and gentleness, as they are~
1929 11|            also are they more manly; and he~who possesses these qualities
1930 11|           possesses strength, nerves and~courage, and not the man
1931 11|        strength, nerves and~courage, and not the man who is subject
1932 11|           subject to fits of passion and~discontent. For in the same
1933 11|            is it nearer to~strength: and as the sense of pain is
1934 11|            For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger,~
1935 11|              anger,~both are wounded and both submit.~ But if thou
1936 11|        leader of~the Muses (Apollo), and it is this- that to expect
1937 11|              to behave so to others, and to expect them not to~do
1938 11|             any wrong, is irrational and tyrannical.~ There are four
1939 11|             constantly on thy guard, and when thou hast~detected
1940 11|          thou shouldst wipe them out and say on each occasion~thus:
1941 11|        within thee being overpowered and~yielding to the less honourable
1942 11|      yielding to the less honourable and to the perishable part,
1943 11|           perishable part, the~body, and to its gross pleasures.~
1944 11|          pleasures.~ Thy aerial part and all the fiery parts which
1945 11|            compound mass (the body). And also the whole of the earthy
1946 11|              the earthy part in~thee and the watery, though their
1947 11|        downward, still are~raised up and occupy a position which
1948 11|           only should be disobedient and~discontented with its own
1949 11|     discontented with its own place? And yet no force is imposed
1950 11|           movement towards injustice and intemperance and to anger
1951 11|           injustice and intemperance and to anger and grief and~fear
1952 11|            intemperance and to anger and grief and~fear is nothing
1953 11|  intemperance and to anger and grief and~fear is nothing else than
1954 11|            who deviates from nature. And~also when the ruling faculty
1955 11|             is constituted for piety~and reverence towards the gods
1956 11|              constitution of things, and indeed they are prior~to
1957 11|         justice.~ He who has not one and always the same object in
1958 11|        object in life, cannot be one~and the same all through his
1959 11|            of a common kind (social) and political. For he who directs~
1960 11|             make all his acts alike,~and thus will always be the
1961 11|           Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of
1962 11|         mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm~and trepidation
1963 11|              mouse, and of the alarm~and trepidation of the town
1964 11|           would not receive a favour and then be unable to return
1965 11|       continually do the same things~and in the same manner perform
1966 11|           manner perform their work, and also be reminded of~their
1967 11|             reminded of~their purity and nudity. For there is no
1968 11|        Xanthippe had taken his cloak and gone out, and what~Socrates
1969 11|              his cloak and gone out, and what~Socrates said to his
1970 11|              who were ashamed of him and drew back~from him when
1971 11|             speech is not for thee.~ And my heart laughed within.~
1972 11|            my heart laughed within.~ And virtue they will curse,
1973 11|        respect to giving his assent; and in respect to his movements
1974 11|             the~value of the object; and as to sensual desire, he
1975 11|        altogether~keep away from it; and as to avoidance (aversion)
1976 11|                Why then do you fight and quarrel?~
1977 12|              refuse them to thyself.~And this means, if thou wilt
1978 12|              notice of all the past, and trust~the future to providence,
1979 12|            the future to providence, and direct the present only
1980 12|            only conformably to~piety and justice. Conformably to
1981 12|          nature designed it for~thee and thee for it. Conformably
1982 12|        always~speak the truth freely and without disguise, and do
1983 12|         freely and without disguise, and do the things which~are
1984 12|           which~are agreeable to law and according to the worth of
1985 12|      according to the worth of each. And let~neither another man'
1986 12|              only thy ruling faculty and the divinity~within thee,
1987 12|            the divinity~within thee, and if thou shalt be afraid
1988 12|             which has produced thee, and thou wilt cease to be a
1989 12|         stranger in thy~native land, and to wonder at things which
1990 12|           were something unexpected, and to be dependent on this
1991 12|              of the~material vesture and rind and impurities. For
1992 12|            material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his
1993 12|   intelligence only which has flowed and~been derived from himself
1994 12|           himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest~thyself
1995 12|             by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and~such
1996 12|           after raiment and dwelling and fame and~such like externals
1997 12|        raiment and dwelling and fame and~such like externals and
1998 12|              and~such like externals and show.~ The things are three
1999 12|           whatever others do or say,~and whatever thou hast done
2000 12|           hast done or said thyself, and whatever future~things trouble