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 501 5 |             by nature to murmur, and to be stingy, and to~flatter,
 502 5 |        murmur, and to be stingy, and to~flatter, and to find fault
 503 5 |          stingy, and to~flatter, and to find fault with thy poor
 504 5 |              with thy poor body, and to try to please~men, and to
 505 5 |            thy poor body, and to try to please~men, and to make
 506 5 |            to try to please~men, and to make great display, and
 507 5 |              make great display, and to be so restless in thy mind?
 508 5 |           when he has done a service to another, is ready to set
 509 5 |         service to another, is ready to set it~down to his account
 510 5 |              is ready to set it~down to his account as a favour
 511 5 |      conferred. Another is not ready to~do this, but still in his
 512 5 |              not call out for others to come and see, but he goes~
 513 5 |              and see, but he goes~on to another act, as a vine goes
 514 5 |       another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes
 515 5 |  characteristic of the social animal to perceive that he is working~
 516 5 |            social manner, and indeed to wish that his social partner
 517 5 |              But if thou wilt choose to understand the~meaning of
 518 5 |                In truth we~ought not to pray at all, or we ought
 519 5 |             pray at all, or we ought to pray in this simple and
 520 5 |          That Aesculapius~prescribed to this man horse-exercise,
 521 5 |              the universe prescribed to this man disease or~mutilation
 522 5 |          this~man as a thing adapted to procure health; and in the
 523 5 |            means: That which happens to (or, suits) every man is
 524 5 |              manner for him suitably to his destiny. For this is
 525 5 |             that things are suitable to us, as the workmen say of~
 526 5 |         suitable,~when they fit them to one another in some kind
 527 5 |            made up out~of all bodies to be such a body as it is,
 528 5 |       necessity (destiny) is made up to be such a cause as it is.
 529 5 |     necessity, destiny) brought this to such a~person.- This then
 530 5 |       brought and this was precribed to him. Let us~then receive
 531 5 |             the common nature~judges to be good, be judged by thee
 532 5 |              good, be judged by thee to be of the same kind as thy~
 533 5 |       disagreeable, because it leads to this, to the health of the~
 534 5 |            because it leads to this, to the health of the~universe
 535 5 |           health of the~universe and to the prosperity and felicity
 536 5 |       anything which is not suitable to that which~is directed by
 537 5 |             reasons then it is right to be content with~that which
 538 5 |              with~that which happens to thee; the one, because it
 539 5 |            in a manner had reference to thee,~originally from the
 540 5 |           that which comes severally to every man is to~the power
 541 5 |            severally to every man is to~the power which administers
 542 5 |               and in a manner triest to put anything out of the
 543 5 |           doing everything according to right principles; but~when
 544 5 |              s nature, and~love this to which thou returnest; and
 545 5 |         returnest; and do not return to philosophy~as if she were
 546 5 |              thus thou wilt not fail to obey reason,~and thou wilt
 547 5 |          else which is not according to nature.- It may be objected,~
 548 5 |    envelopment that they have seemed to~philosophers, not a few
 549 5 |             unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they
 550 5 |       themselves they seem difficult~to understand. And all our
 551 5 |              Carry thy thoughts then to the objects themselves,~
 552 5 |         whore or a robber.~Then turn to the morals of those who
 553 5 |            and it is hardly~possible to endure even the most agreeable
 554 5 |              most agreeable of them, to say nothing of~a man being
 555 5 |              a man being hardly able to endure himself. In such
 556 5 |          contrary it is a man's duty to comfort himself, and to
 557 5 |              to comfort himself, and to wait for the~ natural dissolution
 558 5 |          natural dissolution and not to be vexed at the delay, but
 559 5 |              vexed at the delay, but to rest in~these principles
 560 5 |             that nothing will happen to me which~is not conformable
 561 5 |             which~is not conformable to the nature of the universe;
 562 5 |              it is in my power never to act contrary to my god and
 563 5 |          power never to act contrary to my god and daemon: for~there
 564 5 |            no man who will compel me to this.~ About what am I now
 565 5 |          those are which appear good to the many, we~may learn even
 566 5 |         first conceived these endure to~listen to anything which
 567 5 |     conceived these endure to~listen to anything which should not
 568 5 |              the things which~appear to the many to be good, he
 569 5 |             which~appear to the many to be good, he will listen
 570 5 |         value and think those things to be good, to which after
 571 5 |             those things to be good, to which after their~first
 572 5 |            abundance has not a~place to ease himself in.~ I am composed
 573 5 |            is administered according to definite periods~of revolution.~
 574 5 |              and they make their way to the~end which is proposed
 575 5 |            the~end which is proposed to them; and this is the reason
 576 5 |           None of these things ought to be called a man's, which
 577 5 |           man's, which do not belong~to a man, as man. They are
 578 5 |              nor yet that which aids to the accomplishment of this
 579 5 |              these things did belong to man, it would not be right
 580 5 |         would not be right for a man~to despise them and to set
 581 5 |              man~to despise them and to set himself against them;
 582 5 |         which have life are~superior to those which have not life,
 583 5 |            those which have reason.~ To seek what is impossible
 584 5 |          this kind.~ Nothing happens to any man which he is not
 585 5 |              is not formed by nature to bear.~The same things happen
 586 5 |               The same things happen to another, and either because
 587 5 |              nor~have they admission to the soul, nor can they turn
 588 5 |       judgements~it may think proper to make, such it makes for
 589 5 |             which~present themselves to it.~ In one respect man
 590 5 |             man is the nearest thing to me, so far as I must do~
 591 5 |             so far as I must do~good to men and endure them. But
 592 5 |            make themselves~obstacles to my proper acts, man becomes
 593 5 |             proper acts, man becomes to me one of the things which~
 594 5 |              they are no~impediments to my affects and disposition,
 595 5 |              changes~every hindrance to its activity into an aid;
 596 5 |      hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is
 597 5 |              That which does no harm to the state, does no harm
 598 5 |              the state, does no harm to the citizen.~In the case
 599 5 |         angry with him who does harm to the state.~Show him where
 600 5 |          consider this which is near to thee, this boundless abyss
 601 5 |           interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which
 602 5 |            do me wrong? Let him look to it. He has his own~disposition,
 603 5 |            universal nature~wills me to have; and I do what my nature
 604 5 |          what my nature now wills me to do.~ Let the part of thy
 605 5 |              and limit those~affects to their parts. But when these
 606 5 |           when these affects rise up to the mind~by virtue of that
 607 5 |            then thou must not strive to resist the sensation, for~
 608 5 |            ruling part of itself add to the~sensation the opinion
 609 5 |            gods who constantly~shows to them, his own soul is satisfied
 610 5 |          with that which is assigned~to him, and that it does all
 611 5 |        wishes, which Zeus hath~given to every man for his guardian
 612 5 |              able, if he takes pain, to discover wherein he~offends-
 613 5 |          whore...~ As thou intendest to live when thou art gone
 614 5 |                so it is in~thy power to live here. But if men do
 615 5 |          what I choose; and I choose to~do what is according to
 616 5 |              to~do what is according to the nature of the rational
 617 5 |              has~fitted the superior to one another. Thou seest
 618 5 |            co-ordinated and assigned to everything its proper~portion,
 619 5 |           hast thou behaved hitherto to the gods, thy parents, brethren,~
 620 5 |        brethren,~children, teachers, to those who looked after thy
 621 5 |            looked after thy infancy, to thy~friends, kinsfolk, to
 622 5 |            to thy~friends, kinsfolk, to thy slaves? Consider if
 623 5 |           thou hast hitherto~behaved to all in such a way that this
 624 5 |             deed or word.~ ~And call to recollection both how many
 625 5 |           things thou hast been able to endure: and that~the history
 626 5 |    honourable~thou hast spurned; and to how many ill-minded folks
 627 5 |             and truth are fled~ ~ Up to Olympus from the wide-spread
 628 5 |           exhalation from blood. But to have good repute~amidst
 629 5 |             is extinction or~removal to another state? And until
 630 5 |      sufficient? Why, what else than to venerate the gods and bless
 631 5 |             gods and bless them,~and to do good to men, and to practise
 632 5 |           bless them,~and to do good to men, and to practise tolerance
 633 5 |           and to do good to men, and to practise tolerance and self-restraint;~
 634 5 |           and self-restraint;~but as to everything which is beyond
 635 5 |           the poor flesh~and breath, to remember that this is neither
 636 5 |           two things are common both to the soul of God and to the
 637 5 |          both to the soul of God and to the soul of~man, and to
 638 5 |              to the soul of~man, and to the soul of every rational
 639 5 |            every rational being, not to be hindered by~another;
 640 5 |             hindered by~another; and to hold good to consist in
 641 5 |            another; and to hold good to consist in the disposition
 642 5 |           consist in the disposition to justice and~the practice
 643 5 |          practice of it, and in this to let thy desire find its~
 644 5 |             it? And what is the harm to the common weal?~ Do not
 645 5 |             of things,~but give help to all according to thy ability
 646 5 |           give help to all according to thy ability and their fitness;
 647 5 |     indifferent,~do not imagine this to be a damage. For it is a
 648 5 |             objects of great concern to~these people- wilt thou
 649 5 |              that a man has assigned to himself a good fortune:~
 650 6 |          malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything~
 651 6 |              and perfected according to~this reason.~ Let it make
 652 6 |            Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold
 653 6 |     sufficient then in this act also to do well what~we have in
 654 6 |          they will either be reduced~to vapour, if indeed all substance
 655 6 |              avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong~doer.~
 656 6 |          passing from one~social act to another social act, thinking
 657 6 |              is and such as it wills to be, it~also makes everything
 658 6 |      everything which happens appear to itself to be such as~it
 659 6 |             happens appear to itself to be such as~it wills.~ In
 660 6 |             it wills.~ In conformity to the nature of the universe
 661 6 |              it is not in conformity to any other~nature that each
 662 6 |              former, why do I desire to tarry in a fortuitous~combination
 663 6 |           compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in~a manner,
 664 6 |             a manner, quickly return to thyself and do not continue
 665 6 |             by continually recurring to it.~ If thou hadst a step-mother
 666 6 |              thou~wouldst be dutiful to thy step-mother, but still
 667 6 |            wouldst~constantly return to thy mother. Let the court
 668 6 |          court and philosophy now be~to thee step-mother and mother:
 669 6 |       step-mother and mother: return to philosophy frequently and~
 670 6 |            with in the court~appears to thee tolerable, and thou
 671 6 |             in the same way ought we to act all~through life, and
 672 6 |            our approbation, we ought to lay them bare and look at
 673 6 |        multitude admire are referred to~objects of the most general
 674 6 |              reasonable are referred to the things which are held
 675 6 |              an activity conformable~to reason and social life,
 676 6 |             life, and he co-operates to this end with those~who
 677 6 |           the~air. For such as it is to have once drawn in the air
 678 6 |            once drawn in the air and to have given~it back, which
 679 6 |        yesterday and the day before, to give it back to the element
 680 6 |              before, to give it back to the element from~which thou
 681 6 | transpiration, as in plants, a thing to be valued, nor~respiration,
 682 6 |          then is worth being~valued? To be received with clapping
 683 6 |         valuing? This in my opinion, to move thyself and to restrain
 684 6 |         opinion, to move thyself and to restrain thyself~in conformity
 685 6 |       restrain thyself~in conformity to thy proper constitution,
 686 6 |             thy proper constitution, to which end both all~employments
 687 6 |          been made should be adapted to the work for which it~has
 688 6 |            else. Wilt thou not cease to value many~other things
 689 6 |             fault~with the gods. But to reverence and honour thy
 690 6 |          living with themselves; but to be themselves~praised by
 691 6 |              If a thing is difficult to be accomplished by thyself,
 692 6 |              for~man and conformable to his nature, think that this
 693 6 |             in our power, as I said, to get out of the way, and
 694 6 |              get out of the way, and to have no~suspicion nor hatred.~
 695 6 |          hatred.~ If any man is able to convince me and show me
 696 6 |            and know not the way.~ As to the animals which have no
 697 6 |          groom by death were brought to~the same state; for either
 698 6 |            If any man should propose to thee the question, how the
 699 6 |          parts. These it is thy duty to observe and without being~
 700 6 |              who are angry with thee to go~on thy way and finish
 701 6 |           thee.~ How cruel it is not to allow men to strive after
 702 6 |         cruel it is not to allow men to strive after the things
 703 6 |              the things which~appear to them to be suitable to their
 704 6 |          things which~appear to them to be suitable to their nature
 705 6 |        appear to them to be suitable to their nature and profitable!
 706 6 |             thou dost not allow them to do this, when thou art~vexed
 707 6 |            because they suppose them to be suitable to their nature
 708 6 |          suppose them to be suitable to their nature and~profitable
 709 6 |          their nature and~profitable to them.- But it is not so.-
 710 6 |         thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.~ It is a shame
 711 6 |              is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in
 712 6 |             for the soul to be first to give way in this life,~when
 713 6 |              all proper acts. Strive to continue to be such as philosophy
 714 6 |             acts. Strive to continue to be such as philosophy wished
 715 6 |            such as philosophy wished to~make thee. Reverence the
 716 6 |            act which was conformable to reason, and his evenness
 717 6 |          empty fame, and his efforts to~understand things; and how
 718 6 |              and how he listened not to~calumnies, and how exact
 719 6 |        actions he was;~and not given to reproach people, nor timid,
 720 6 |          account of his sparing diet to hold out to the evening,
 721 6 |             sparing diet to hold out to the evening, not~even requiring
 722 6 |          evening, not~even requiring to relieve himself by any evacuations
 723 6 |            comes, as he had.~ Return to thy sober senses and call
 724 6 |          little body and a soul. Now to this little body all~things
 725 6 |      indifferent, for it is not able to perceive differences.~But
 726 6 |            perceive differences.~But to the understanding those
 727 6 |              are done with reference to the present; for~as to the
 728 6 |     reference to the present; for~as to the future and the past
 729 6 |              of the foot is~contrary to nature, so long as the foot
 730 6 |              hand's. So then neither to a man as a man is his labour~
 731 6 |           man is his labour~contrary to nature, so long as it does
 732 6 |           the~labour is not contrary to his nature, neither is it
 733 6 |        nature, neither is it an evil to him.~ How many pleasures
 734 6 |            accommodate themselves up~to a certain point to those
 735 6 |     themselves up~to a certain point to those who are not skilled
 736 6 |              nevertheless they cling to the reason (the principles)
 737 6 |          their art and do not endure to depart from it? Is it not
 738 6 |              shall have more respect to the~reason (the principles)
 739 6 |              their own arts than man to his own~reason, which is
 740 6 |              reason, which is common to him and the gods?~ Asia,
 741 6 |          universe~and their relation to one another. For in a manner
 742 6 |             in this way are friendly to one~another; for one thing
 743 6 |            substance.~ Adapt thyself to the things with which thy
 744 6 |         wherefore the more is it fit~to reverence this power, and
 745 6 |            reverence this power, and to think, that, if thou dost
 746 6 |          dost live and act~according to its will, everything in
 747 6 |             in thee is in conformity to~intelligence. And thus also
 748 6 |              the things which belong to~it are in conformity to
 749 6 |              to~it are in conformity to intelligence.~ Whatever
 750 6 |             power thou shalt~suppose to be good for thee or evil,
 751 6 |            suspected of being likely~to be the cause; and indeed
 752 6 |        things~which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains
 753 6 |       standing in a hostile attitude to~man.~ We are all working
 754 6 |             are all working together to one end, some with knowledge
 755 6 |            happens and~those who try to oppose it and to hinder
 756 6 |             who try to oppose it and to hinder it; for the universe
 757 6 |             It remains then for thee to understand~among what kind
 758 6 |          those whose~labours conduce to one end. But be not thou
 759 6 |               Does the sun undertake to do the work of the rain,
 760 6 |           And how is it with respect~to each of the stars, are they
 761 6 |           and yet they work~together to the same end?~ If the gods
 762 6 |             things which must~happen to me, they have determined
 763 6 |              for it is not easy even to~imagine a deity without
 764 6 |          without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why~should
 765 6 |          what advantage would~result to them from this or to the
 766 6 |          result to them from this or to the whole, which is the
 767 6 |          general~arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and
 768 6 |             accept with pleasure and to be content with~them. But
 769 6 |          nothing- which it is wicked to~believe, or if we do believe
 770 6 |          which concern us, I am able to determine about~myself,
 771 6 |           useful; and that is~useful to every man which is conformable
 772 6 |             man which is conformable to his own constitution and~
 773 6 |         things then which are useful to these cities are alone~useful
 774 6 |              cities are alone~useful to me. Whatever happens to
 775 6 |              to me. Whatever happens to every man, this is for the
 776 6 |          that~whatever is profitable to any man is profitable also
 777 6 |           any man is profitable also to other men. But~let the word
 778 6 |              nor bad.~ As it happens to thee in the amphitheatre
 779 6 |              thoughts come down even to~Philistion and Phoebus and
 780 6 |     Origanion. Now turn thy thoughts to the~other kinds of men.
 781 6 |              the~other kinds of men. To that place then we must
 782 6 |             such as~are like him. As to all these consider that
 783 6 |               What harm then is this to them; and what to those
 784 6 |            is this to them; and what to those whose names~are altogether
 785 6 |          here is worth a great deal, to~pass thy life in truth and
 786 6 |          benevolent disposition even~to liars and unjust men.~ When
 787 6 |              men.~ When thou wishest to delight thyself, think of
 788 6 |              which has been assigned to~thee, so be content with
 789 6 |           with the time.~ Let us try to persuade them (men). But
 790 6 |              thy way, betake thyself to contentment and~tranquility,
 791 6 |           that thou didst not desire to do~impossibilities. What
 792 6 |            thy object, if the things to which thou~wast moved are
 793 6 |     considers another man's activity to be his own~good; and he
 794 6 |               considers his own acts to be his own good.~ It is
 795 6 |            good.~ It is in our power to have no opinion about a
 796 6 |       opinion about a thing, and not to be~disturbed in our soul;
 797 6 |     themselves have no natural power~to form our judgements.~ Accustom
 798 6 |        judgements.~ Accustom thyself to attend carefully to what
 799 6 |          thyself to attend carefully to what is said by another,
 800 6 |            doctor, would they~listen to anybody else; or how could
 801 6 |             already gone~out of it.~ To the jaundiced honey tastes
 802 6 |             honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten by mad~dogs
 803 6 |          dogs water causes fear; and to little children the ball
 804 6 |           thee from living according to the reason of thy~own nature:
 805 6 |          nature: nothing will happen to thee contrary to the reason
 806 6 |              happen to thee contrary to the reason of~the universal
 807 6 |              are those whom men wish to please, and for~what objects,
 808 7 |           thoughts) which correspond to them are extinguished? But
 809 7 |            in thy~power continuously to fan these thoughts into
 810 7 |              anything, which I ought to have. If I can, why am I~
 811 7 |            things which are external to my mind have no relation~
 812 7 |              have no relation~at all to my mind.- Let this be the
 813 7 |             and thou~standest erect. To recover thy life is in thy
 814 7 |              again as thou didst use to look at them; for in this
 815 7 |             with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of~bread
 816 7 |             the midst of such things to show~good humour and not
 817 7 |          humour and not a proud air; to understand however that
 818 7 |           discourse thou must attend to what is said, and in every
 819 7 |             shouldst see~immediately to what end it refers, but
 820 7 |           from the~work and give way to him who is able to do it
 821 7 |          give way to him who is able to do it better, unless there~
 822 7 |          some reason why I ought not to do so; or I do it as well
 823 7 |             as well as I~can, taking to help me the man who with
 824 7 |              another I can do, ought to be directed to~this only,
 825 7 |             do, ought to be directed to~this only, to that which
 826 7 |            be directed to~this only, to that which is useful and
 827 7 |            is useful and well suited to society.~ How many after
 828 7 |              fame have been given up to~oblivion; and how many who
 829 7 |           been dead.~ Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy
 830 7 |               for it is thy business to do thy duty~like a soldier
 831 7 |             thee, for thou wilt come to them, if~it shall be necessary,
 832 7 |       co-ordinated, and they combine to form the same~universe (
 833 7 |           soon~overwhelmed in time.~ To the rational animal the
 834 7 |            the same act is according to nature and~according to
 835 7 |              to nature and~according to reason.~ Be thou erect,
 836 7 |           this will~be more apparent to thee, if thou often sayest
 837 7 |           thee, if thou often sayest to thyself that I am~a member (
 838 7 |            and~not yet as doing good to thyself.~ Let there fall
 839 7 |            And it is in my power not to think so.~ Whatever any
 840 7 |        itself, that which is subject to fear, to pain, which has~
 841 7 |            which is subject to fear, to pain, which has~completely
 842 7 |              thou art come~according to thy old fashion. I am not
 843 7 |            pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?~And
 844 7 |           then that for thyself also to change is just the same,
 845 7 |           let the same thought occur to~thee with reference to every
 846 7 |         occur to~thee with reference to every man and thing.~ One
 847 7 |              by all.~ It is peculiar to man to love even those who
 848 7 |                It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong.
 849 7 |              they do wrong it occurs to thee that they are~kinsmen,
 850 7 |              hardship for the vessel to be broken up, just as there
 851 7 |         again lighted up at all. Try~to conclude from this very
 852 7 |             fact that it is contrary to reason. For~if even the
 853 7 |              thinkest the same thing to be good that he~does or
 854 7 |            kind. It is thy duty then to~pardon him. But if thou
 855 7 |           dost not think such things to be good or evil,~thou wilt
 856 7 |             readily be well disposed to him who is in error.~ Think
 857 7 |           with them accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to
 858 7 |             to overvalue them, so as to be~disturbed if ever thou
 859 7 |             strings. Confine~thyself to the present. Understand
 860 7 |             well what happens either to thee or~to another. Divide
 861 7 |            happens either to thee or~to another. Divide and distribute
 862 7 |          done.~ Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding
 863 7 |         rules all.- And it is enough to~remember that Law rules
 864 7 |          suppose it possible for him to~think that human life is
 865 7 |             Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and to be abused.~
 866 7 |              is royal to do good and to be abused.~ It is a base
 867 7 |            thing for the countenance to be obedient and to~regulate
 868 7 |       countenance to be obedient and to~regulate and compose itself
 869 7 |       commands, and for the mind not~to be regulated and composed
 870 7 |           itself.~ ~ It is not right to vex ourselves at things,~
 871 7 |             care nought about it.~ ~ To the immortal gods and us
 872 7 |            for anything at all ought to compute the hazard of life
 873 7 |           and should not rather look to this only in all that he
 874 7 |         there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the~hazard,
 875 7 |         opinion he ought to stay and to abide the~hazard, taking
 876 7 |              and being saved; for as to a man~living such or such
 877 7 |      consider~if this is not a thing to be dismissed from the thoughts:
 878 7 |              no love of life: but as to these matters a man must
 879 7 |              a man must intrust~them to the deity and believe what
 880 7 |            live the~time that he has to live.~ Look round at the
 881 7 |          take place now: accordingly~to have contemplated human
 882 7 |           forty years is the same as to have~contemplated it for
 883 7 |             has grown from the earth to the earth,~ But that which
 884 7 |            from heavenly seed,~ Back to the heavenly realms returns.~ ~
 885 7 |         Turning the channel's course to 'scape from death.~ The
 886 7 |               nor better disciplined to meet all~that happens, nor
 887 7 |             considerate with respect to the faults of his~neighbours.~
 888 7 |              can be done conformably to the reason which is common~
 889 7 |           the reason which is common~to gods and men, there we have
 890 7 |           men, there we have nothing to fear: for where we are~able
 891 7 |          fear: for where we are~able to get profit by means of the
 892 7 |    successful and~proceeds according to our constitution, there
 893 7 |       constitution, there no harm is to be~suspected.~ Everywhere
 894 7 |              is in thy power piously to~acquiesce in thy present
 895 7 |           thy present condition, and to behave justly to those~who
 896 7 |      condition, and to behave justly to those~who are about thee,
 897 7 |              who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy
 898 7 |              Do not look around thee to discover other men's ruling
 899 7 |        principles,~but look straight to this, to what nature leads
 900 7 |           but look straight to this, to what nature leads thee,
 901 7 |              the things which happen to thee, and thy~own nature
 902 7 |          thee. But every~being ought to do that which is according
 903 7 |              that which is according to its constitution; and all~
 904 7 |        social. And~the second is not to yield to the persuasions
 905 7 |           the second is not to yield to the persuasions of the body,
 906 7 |      rational and intelligent motion to~circumscribe itself, and
 907 7 |       circumscribe itself, and never to be overpowered either by
 908 7 |           and does not permit itself to be~overpowered by the others.
 909 7 |           for it is formed by~nature to use all of them. The third
 910 7 |        ruling principle holding fast to these things go straight
 911 7 |           its own.~ Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed
 912 7 |              thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life
 913 7 |           have completed thy life up to~the present time; and live
 914 7 |             time; and live according to nature the remainder which~
 915 7 |              that only which happens to thee and is spun with the
 916 7 |           keep before thy eyes those to whom the~same things happened,
 917 7 |            then dost thou too choose to act in the same way? And
 918 7 |         agitations which are foreign to nature, to~those who cause
 919 7 |         which are foreign to nature, to~those who cause them and
 920 7 |              the things~which happen to thee? For then thou wilt
 921 7 |          will be a material for thee to work on. Only attend to
 922 7 |              to work on. Only attend to thyself, and~resolve to
 923 7 |              to thyself, and~resolve to be a good man in every act
 924 7 |            ever dig.~ The body ought to be compact, and to show
 925 7 |             ought to be compact, and to show no irregularity either~
 926 7 |            and propriety, that~ought to be required also in the
 927 7 |          should stand ready and firm to meet onsets~which are sudden
 928 7 |             approbation thou wishest to~have, and what ruling principles
 929 7 |         approbation, if thou lookest to the sources of their opinions
 930 7 |           kind. It is most~necessary to bear this constantly in
 931 7 |           and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination: and~remember
 932 7 |        things which~are disagreeable to us are the same as pain,
 933 7 |             any of these things,~say to thyself, that thou art yielding
 934 7 |               that thou art yielding to pain.~ Take care not to
 935 7 |              to pain.~ Take care not to feel towards the inhuman,
 936 7 |            not superior in character to~Socrates? For it is not
 937 7 |             and that when he was bid to~arrest Leon of Salamis,
 938 7 |             considered it more noble to refuse, and~that he walked
 939 7 |            in the streets- though as to this~fact one may have great
 940 7 |            it was true. But we ought to~inquire, what kind of a
 941 7 |        possessed, and if he~was able to be content with being just
 942 7 |           yet~making himself a slave to any man's ignorance, nor
 943 7 |           strange anything that fell to his share out of the universal,
 944 7 |           allowing his understanding to~sympathize with the affects
 945 7 |      composition of~the body, as not to have allowed thee the power
 946 7 |            bringing under subjection to thyself all that is thy~
 947 7 |              for it is very possible to be a divine man and to be
 948 7 |      possible to be a divine man and to be recognised~as such by
 949 7 |              and social and obedient to God.~ It is in thy power
 950 7 |             God.~ It is in thy power to live free from all compulsion
 951 7 |          objects which are presented to it, so that the~judgement
 952 7 |           that the~judgement may say to the thing which falls under
 953 7 |           opinion thou mayest~appear to be of a different kind;
 954 7 |          kind; and the use shall say to that~which falls under the
 955 7 |              that I was seeking; for~to me that which presents itself
 956 7 |       exercise of art,~which belongs to man or God. For everything
 957 7 |            has a~relationship either to God or man, and is neither
 958 7 |            neither new nor difficult to~handle, but usual and apt
 959 7 |             but usual and apt matter to work on.~ The perfection
 960 7 |           But thou, who art destined to end so soon, art thou wearied
 961 7 |       ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own~badness,
 962 7 |              is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's~badness,
 963 7 |     political (social) faculty finds to be~neither intelligent nor
 964 7 |           social, it properly judges to be inferior to~itself.~
 965 7 |       properly judges to be inferior to~itself.~ When thou hast
 966 7 |           these, as fools do, either to have~the reputation of having
 967 7 |            having done a good act or to obtain a return?~ No man
 968 7 |             useful. But it is useful to act~according to nature.
 969 7 |              useful to act~according to nature. Do not then be tired
 970 7 |           what is~useful by doing it to others.~ The nature of the
 971 7 |           The nature of the An moved to make the universe. But now
 972 8 |           THIS reflection also tends to the removal of the desire
 973 8 |            is no longer in thy power to have lived the whole of
 974 8 |              a philosopher;~but both to many others and to thyself
 975 8 |              both to many others and to thyself it is plain that
 976 8 |              no~longer easy for thee to get the reputation of a
 977 8 |         thought, How thou shalt seem to others,~and be content if
 978 8 |       principles? Those which relate to good and bad: the belief
 979 8 |             does~not do the contrary to what has been mentioned.~
 980 8 |             How is this with respect~to me? Shall I repent of it?
 981 8 |            men were the same. But as to the others, how many~things
 982 8 |             how many~things had they to care for, and to how many
 983 8 |            had they to care for, and to how many things were they
 984 8 |             all things are~according to the nature of the universal;
 985 8 |      remembering that it is thy duty to be a good man, and~what
 986 8 |         aside; and speak as~it seems to thee most just, only let
 987 8 |              universal has this work to do, to remove to that~place
 988 8 |       universal has this work to do, to remove to that~place the
 989 8 |           this work to do, to remove to that~place the things which
 990 8 |            things which are in this, to change them, to take them~
 991 8 |             in this, to change them, to take them~away hence, and
 992 8 |            take them~away hence, and to carry them there. All things
 993 8 |              All things are familiar to us; but the~distribution
 994 8 |              its thoughts~it assents to nothing false or uncertain,
 995 8 |             it directs its~movements to social acts only, and when
 996 8 |            its desires and~aversions to the things which are in
 997 8 |          everything that is assigned to it by the common nature.~
 998 8 |            or reason, and is subject to be impeded; but the nature~
 999 8 |          nature which is not subject to impediments, and is~intelligent
1000 8 |             and just, since it gives to everything in equal portions~