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2001 12|             because they may happen, and whatever in the~body which
2002 12|             independent of thy will,~and whatever the external circumfluent
2003 12|         things of fate can live pure~and free by itself, doing what
2004 12|           itself, doing what is just and accepting what happens~and
2005 12|           and accepting what happens~and saying the truth: if thou
2006 12|            the impressions of~sense, and the things of time to come
2007 12|           the things of time to come and of time that is past, and~
2008 12|            and of time that is past, and~wilt make thyself like Empedocles'
2009 12|    Empedocles' sphere,~ ~ All round, and in its joyous rest reposing;~ ~
2010 12|              joyous rest reposing;~ ~and if thou shalt strive to
2011 12|           from~perturbations, nobly, and obedient to thy own daemon (
2012 12|             present himself to a man and bid him to think of~nothing
2013 12|              him to think of~nothing and to design nothing which
2014 12|             arranged all things well~and benevolently for mankind,
2015 12|            this alone, that some~men and very good men, and men who,
2016 12|          some~men and very good men, and men who, as we may say,
2017 12|         communion with the divinity, and through pious acts and religious~
2018 12|               and through pious acts and religious~observances have
2019 12|              would also be possible; and if it were according to
2020 12|            disputing with the~diety; and we should not thus dispute
2021 12|             they~were most excellent and most just;- but if this
2022 12|             to be~neglected unjustly and irrationally.~ Practise
2023 12|          what condition both in body and soul a man should be~when
2024 12|            he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of
2025 12|         boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of
2026 12|           pain is, what~pleasure is, and death, and fame; who is
2027 12|              pleasure is, and death, and fame; who is to himself
2028 12|              the~sword which he uses and is killed; but the other
2029 12|           other always has his~hand, and needs to do nothing else
2030 12|      dividing them into matter, form~and purpose.~ What a power man
2031 12|        except what God will approve, and~to accept all that God may
2032 12|              nobody.~ How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who
2033 12|           there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind~
2034 12|          confusion without a purpose and without a director~(Book
2035 12|         certain ruling intelligence. And even~if the tempest carry
2036 12|            until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is
2037 12|           the truth which is in thee and~justice and temperance be
2038 12|         which is in thee and~justice and temperance be extinguished
2039 12|              this is a wrongful act? And even if he has~done wrong,
2040 12|           has not condemned himself? and so~this is like tearing
2041 12|            to bear juice in the figs and infants to cry and the horse
2042 12|              figs and infants to cry and the horse to~neigh, and
2043 12|              and the horse to~neigh, and whatever else must of necessity
2044 12|              for~thee an appearance, and resolve it by dividing it
2045 12|           the~material, the purpose, and the time within which it
2046 12|             in thee something better and more~divine than the things
2047 12|           cause the various affects, and as it were~pull thee by
2048 12|             long thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, nor~will any of
2049 12|           formed by nature to change~and be turned and to perish
2050 12|              to change~and be turned and to perish in order that
2051 12|          that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.~
2052 12|          thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner,~who has
2053 12|             calm, everything~stable, and a waveless bay.~ Any one
2054 12|            with. But the~proper time and the limit nature fixes,
2055 12|        universe continues ever young and perfect.~And everything
2056 12|              ever young and perfect.~And everything which is useful
2057 12|             universal is always good and~in season. Therefore the
2058 12|              independent of the~will and not opposed to the general
2059 12|               since it~is seasonable and profitable to and congruent
2060 12|         seasonable and profitable to and congruent with the universal.~
2061 12|           same~manner with the deity and moved towards the same things
2062 12|             according to Providence, and thou must neither blame
2063 12|             of its receiving a soul, and from the reception of a
2064 12|             giving back of the same, and of what things every being
2065 12|            every being is~compounded and into what things it is resolved.
2066 12|           raised up above the earth, and shouldst look down~on human
2067 12|           look down~on human things, and observe the variety of them
2068 12|             of them how great it is,~and at the same time also shouldst
2069 12|              dwell around in the air and the aether,~consider that
2070 12|             things, sameness of form and shortness of duration. Are
2071 12|             to the universal nature; and~forgotten this, that a man'
2072 12|              act is nothing to thee; and~further thou hast forgotten
2073 12|          happens,~always happened so and will happen so, and now
2074 12|      happened so and will happen so, and now happens so~everywhere;
2075 12|            the kinship between a man~and the whole human race, for
2076 12|           seed, but of intelligence. And thou hast forgotten this
2077 12|             s intelligence is a god, and is an efflux of the deity;~
2078 12|              an efflux of the deity;~and forgotten this, that nothing
2079 12|              own, but that his child~and his body and his very soul
2080 12|          that his child~and his body and his very soul came from
2081 12|          that everything is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten
2082 12|         lives the present time only, and loses only this.~ Constantly
2083 12|              are they all now? Smoke and ash and a tale, or not even~
2084 12|          they all now? Smoke and ash and a tale, or not even~a tale.
2085 12|            tale, or not even~a tale. And let there be present to
2086 12|     Catullinus lived in the country, and Lucius Lupus~in his gardens,
2087 12|         Lucius Lupus~in his gardens, and Stertinius at Baiae, and
2088 12|             and Stertinius at Baiae, and Tiberius at Capreae and~
2089 12|              and Tiberius at Capreae and~Velius Rufus (or Rufus at
2090 12|           Rufus (or Rufus at Velia); and in fine think of the eager~
2091 12|       anything conjoined with pride; and how worthless everything~
2092 12|          which men violently strain; and how much more philosophical~