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   1 1 |            morals and the government~of my temper.~ From the reputation
   2 1 |           reputation and remembrance of my father, modesty and a~
   3 1 |        further, simplicity in my~way of living, far removed from
   4 1 |              removed from the habits of the rich.~ From my great-grandfather,
   5 1 |              governor, to be neither of the green nor of the blue
   6 1 |             neither of the green nor of the blue party~at the games
   7 1 |        Circus, nor a partizan either of the Parmularius~or the Scutarius
   8 1 |              too I learned~endurance of labour, and to want little,
   9 1 |    incantations and the driving away of daemons and such things;
  10 1 |        things; and to endure freedom of speech; and to have become~
  11 1 |            have been a hearer, first of~Bacchius, then of Tandasis
  12 1 |              first of~Bacchius, then of Tandasis and Marcianus;
  13 1 |              skin, and~whatever else of the kind belongs to the
  14 1 |               nor to do other things of the kind; and~to write my
  15 1 |            superficial understanding of a book; nor hastily to give
  16 1 |       acquainted with the discourses of Epictetus, which he communicated~
  17 1 |            he communicated~to me out of his own collection.~ From
  18 1 |         Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness~
  19 1 |           and undeviating steadiness~of purpose; and to look to
  20 1 |         sharp pains, on the~occasion of the loss of a child, and
  21 1 |             the~occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness;
  22 1 |           principles as the~smallest of his merits; and from him
  23 1 |         disposition, and the example of a family~governed in a fatherly
  24 1 |        fatherly manner, and the idea of living conformably to~nature;
  25 1 |        carefully after~the interests of friends, and to tolerate
  26 1 |      consideration: he had the power of~readily accommodating himself
  27 1 |              he had the~faculty both of discovering and ordering,
  28 1 |            been used, and in~the way of answer or giving confirmation,
  29 1 |    continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation~
  30 1 |            to be ready to speak well of teachers,~as it is reported
  31 1 |          teachers,~as it is reported of Domitius and Athenodotus;
  32 1 |              him I received the idea of a polity in~which there
  33 1 |             rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of
  34 1 |              of speech, and the idea of a~kingly government which
  35 1 |       government which respects most of all the freedom of the~governed;
  36 1 |              most of all the freedom of the~governed; I learned
  37 1 |              observed no~concealment of his opinions with respect
  38 1 |     admixture in the moral character of sweetness~and dignity, and
  39 1 |            was accustomed to do acts of beneficence,~and was ready
  40 1 |             presented the appearance of a man who could not be diverted
  41 1 |      diverted from right~rather than of a man who had been improved.
  42 1 |             man. He had also the art of being~humorous in an agreeable
  43 1 |           father I observed mildness of temper, and unchangeable~
  44 1 |             call honours;~and a love of labour and perseverance;
  45 1 |              derived from experience of the occasions for vigorous
  46 1 |            with him or to~attend him of necessity when he went abroad,
  47 1 |             accompany him, by reason of any urgent circumstances,
  48 1 |             I observed too his habit of careful inquiry in all~matters
  49 1 |       careful inquiry in all~matters of deliberation, and his persistency,
  50 1 |             and not to be soon tired of them, nor yet to be~extravagant
  51 1 |     necessary for the administration of the empire, and to be a~
  52 1 |             and to be a~good manager of the expenditure, and patiently
  53 1 |         thoughts or action, nor~love of novelty. And the things
  54 1 |             any way to the~commodity of life, and of which fortune
  55 1 |           the~commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant
  56 1 |          them. No one could ever say of him that he was~either a
  57 1 |            He took a reasonable care~of his body's health, not as
  58 1 |            attached to life, nor~out of regard to personal appearance,
  59 1 |            very seldom stood in need of~the physician's art or of
  60 1 |            of~the physician's art or of medicine or external applications.
  61 1 |     particular faculty, such as that of eloquence or knowledge of
  62 1 |            of eloquence or knowledge of the~law or of morals, or
  63 1 |              knowledge of the~law or of morals, or of anything else;
  64 1 |             the~law or of morals, or of anything else; and he gave
  65 1 |      conformably to the institutions of his country, without~showing
  66 1 |              showing any affectation of doing so. Further, he was
  67 1 |             Further, he was not fond of~change nor unsteady, but
  68 1 |              and after his paroxysms of~headache he came immediately
  69 1 |            economy in~the exhibition of the public spectacles and
  70 1 |      spectacles and the construction of public~buildings, his donations
  71 1 |  unseasonable~hours; he was not fond of building houses, nor curious
  72 1 |         about the texture and colour of his clothes, nor about the~
  73 1 |        clothes, nor about the~beauty of his slaves. His dress came
  74 1 |               as if he had abundance of~time, and without confusion,
  75 1 |             to him which is recorded of~Socrates, that he was able
  76 1 |             in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect
  77 1 |             he showed in the illness of Maximus.~ To the gods I
  78 1 |              any offence against any of them, though~I had a disposition
  79 1 |          have~led me to do something of this kind; but, through
  80 1 |         never was such a concurrence of circumstances as put me
  81 1 |          that I preserved the~flower of my youth, and that I did
  82 1 |            that I did not make proof of my virility~before the proper
  83 1 |             very near to the~fashion of a private person, without
  84 1 |         brought me up in the station of honour, which they~seemed
  85 1 |           putting them off with hope of my doing it~some time after,
  86 1 |             to nature, and what kind of a~life that is, so that,
  87 1 |            though I still fall short of~it through my own fault,
  88 1 |            observing the admonitions~of the gods, and, I may almost
  89 1 |           out so long in such a kind of life; that I never touched~
  90 1 |               though I was often out of humour~with Rusticus, I
  91 1 |       Rusticus, I never did anything of which I had occasion to
  92 1 |             she spent the~last years of her life with me; that,
  93 1 |             that I had~not the means of doing it; and that to myself
  94 1 |         simple; that I had~abundance of good masters for my children;
  95 1 |              not fall into the hands of any sophist, and that I
  96 1 |             waste my~time on writers of histories, or in the resolution
  97 1 |      histories, or in the resolution of syllogisms, or~occupy myself
  98 1 |              about the investigation of appearances in the heavens;~
  99 1 |              things require the help of the gods and fortune.~ Among
 100 2 |             happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what
 101 2 |            reason of their ignorance of what is~good and evil. But
 102 2 |             who have seen the nature of the good that it is~beautiful,
 103 2 |            that it is~beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly,
 104 2 |              is ugly, and the nature of him who~does wrong, that
 105 2 |              is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed,~
 106 2 |    intelligence and the same portion~of the divinity, I can neither
 107 2 |            neither be injured by any of them, for no one~can fix
 108 2 |          like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.
 109 2 |              a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and~arteries.
 110 2 |           the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and~
 111 2 |             is from the gods is full of Providence. That which is~
 112 2 |           which~is for the advantage of the whole universe, of which
 113 2 |     advantage of the whole universe, of which thou art a~part. But
 114 2 |          that is good for every part of nature which the nature
 115 2 |              nature which the nature of~the whole brings, and what
 116 2 |         preserved, as by the changes of the elements so by the~changes
 117 2 |           elements so by the~changes of things compounded of the
 118 2 |         changes of things compounded of the elements. Let these
 119 2 |            must now at last perceive of what universe thou art a~
 120 2 |        universe thou art a~part, and of what administrator of the
 121 2 |            and of what administrator of the universe thy existence
 122 2 |             efflux, and that a limit of time is fixed for thee,
 123 2 |          simple dignity, and feeling of~affection, and freedom,
 124 2 |              if thou doest~every act of thy life as if it were the
 125 2 |           aversion from the commands of reason,~and all hypocrisy,
 126 2 |             which if a man lays hold of, he is able to live a life
 127 2 |            and is like the existence of the gods; for the gods on
 128 2 |          longer have the opportunity of honouring thyself. Every
 129 2 |            thy felicity in the souls of others.~ Do the things external
 130 2 |        observing what is in the mind of another a man has~seldom
 131 2 |            not observe the~movements of their own minds must of
 132 2 |              of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.~ This
 133 2 |             mind, what is the nature of the whole,~and what is my
 134 2 |       related to that, and what~kind of a part it is of what kind
 135 2 |            what~kind of a part it is of what kind of a whole; and
 136 2 |              part it is of what kind of a whole; and that there
 137 2 |              according to the nature of which thou art a part.~
 138 2 |      Theophrastus, in his comparison of bad acts- such a comparison
 139 2 |              with the common notions of mankind- says,~like a true
 140 2 |            then,~and in a way worthy of philosophy, he said that
 141 2 |             not a thing to be afraid of, for~the gods will not involve
 142 2 |            live in a universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence?
 143 2 |             devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But~in truth
 144 2 |             possible that the nature of the universe has~overlooked
 145 2 |         mistake, either through want of power or want of skill,
 146 2 |        through want of power or want of skill, that good~and evil
 147 2 |              in time the remembrance of them; what is the nature
 148 2 |             them; what is the nature of~all sensible things, and
 149 2 |          which attract with the~bait of pleasure or terrify by pain,
 150 2 |              all this it is the part of the intellectual faculty
 151 2 |             by the abstractive power of reflection resolves into~
 152 2 |       nothing else than an operation~of nature; and if any one is
 153 2 |             and if any one is afraid of an operation of nature,
 154 2 |            is afraid of an operation of nature, he is a~child. This,
 155 2 |             is not only an operation of nature, but it is~also a
 156 2 |             conduces to the purposes of nature. To observe~too how
 157 2 |              deity, and by what part of him, and when~this part
 158 2 |              him, and when~this part of man is so disposed.~ Nothing
 159 2 |      conjecture what is in the minds of his neighbours,~without
 160 2 |             sincerely. And reverence of the daemon~consists in keeping
 161 2 |              be dear to us by reason of kinship; and sometimes even,
 162 2 |              move our pity by reason of men's ignorance of good
 163 2 |            reason of men's ignorance of good and~bad; this defect
 164 2 |          than that which deprives us of the~power of distinguishing
 165 2 |             deprives us of the~power of distinguishing things that
 166 2 |             things from~eternity are of like forms and come round
 167 2 |            present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived,
 168 2 |              manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man~
 169 2 |         receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.~
 170 2 |             as it is true.~ The soul of man does violence to itself,
 171 2 |            violence to itself, first of all, when it~becomes an
 172 2 |              happens is a separation~of ourselves from nature, in
 173 2 |            from nature, in some part of which the natures of all~
 174 2 |            part of which the natures of all~other things are contained.
 175 2 |       towards him with the intention of injuring, such as are the
 176 2 |      injuring, such as are the souls of~those who are angry. In
 177 2 |               when it allows any act of its own and any movement
 178 2 |     reference to an end; and the end of rational animals is~to follow
 179 2 |        follow the reason and the law of the most ancient city and
 180 2 |            ancient city and polity.~ Of human life the time is a
 181 2 |            dull, and the composition of the whole body subject~to
 182 2 |              and~fame a thing devoid of judgement. And, to say all
 183 2 |      hypocrisy, not~feeling the need of another man's doing or not
 184 2 |              else than a dissolution of the elements of which every
 185 2 |          dissolution of the elements of which every living being
 186 2 |           the change and dissolution of all the elements? For~it
 187 3 |              away~and a smaller part of it is left, but another
 188 3 |     sufficient for~the comprehension of things, and retain the power
 189 3 |         things, and retain the power of contemplation~which strives
 190 3 |             to acquire the knowledge of the divine and the human.~
 191 3 |           and whatever else there is of the kind,~will not fail;
 192 3 |              not fail; but the power of making use of ourselves,
 193 3 |              the power of making use of ourselves, and filling~up
 194 3 |           and filling~up the measure of our duty, and clearly separating
 195 3 |              life, and~whatever else of the kind absolutely requires
 196 3 |          also because the conception~of things and the understanding
 197 3 |         things and the understanding of them cease first.~ We ought
 198 3 |              contrary to the purpose of the baker's art, are~beautiful
 199 3 |         olives the very circumstance of their being near to~rottenness
 200 3 |              the fruit. And the ears of corn~bending down, and the
 201 3 |           which flows from~the mouth of wild boars, and many other
 202 3 |        universe, there is hardly one of those which~follow by way
 203 3 |            those which~follow by way of consequence which will not
 204 3 |            even the~real gaping jaws of wild beasts with no less
 205 3 |            the attractive loveliness of young persons he will be
 206 3 |         Chaldaei foretold the deaths of many, and then fate caught
 207 3 |            pieces~many ten thousands of cavalry and infantry, themselves
 208 3 |    speculations on the~conflagration of the universe, was filled
 209 3 |       another life, there is no want of gods, not even there.~But
 210 3 |              not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about
 211 3 |              thoughts to some object of common~utility. For thou
 212 3 |          thou losest the opportunity of doing something else~when
 213 3 |              and what is he thinking of, and what~is he contriving,
 214 3 |        contriving, and whatever else of the kind makes us wander
 215 3 |            away~from the observation of our own ruling power. We
 216 3 |          then to check~in the series of our thoughts everything
 217 3 |        purpose and~useless, but most of all the over-curious feeling
 218 3 |          should use himself to think of those things only about
 219 3 |        delays being among the~number of the best, is like a priest
 220 3 |           like a priest and minister of the gods, using~too the
 221 3 |             and he constantly thinks of that~which is allotted to
 222 3 |              allotted to himself out of the sum total of things,
 223 3 |         himself out of the sum total of things, and he~makes his
 224 3 |           hold on to the~opinion not of all, but of those only who
 225 3 |              opinion not of all, but of those only who confessedly
 226 3 |              bears in mind~what kind of men they are both at home
 227 3 |              and be not either a man of many~words, or busy about
 228 3 |              in thee be the guardian of a living being, manly and
 229 3 |              living being, manly and of ripe age,~and engaged in
 230 3 |              go, having need neither of oath nor of any~man's testimony.
 231 3 |             need neither of oath nor of any~man's testimony. Be
 232 3 |          itself from the persuasions of sense,~and has submitted
 233 3 |          everything else smaller and of less value than this, give~
 234 3 |              not right that anything of any other kind, such as~
 235 3 |               or power, or enjoyment of pleasure, should~come into
 236 3 |           and daemon and the worship of its excellence, acts no~
 237 3 |          company; and, what is chief of all, he will live without
 238 3 |       decency and~order; taking care of this only all through life,
 239 3 |      intelligent animal and~a member of a civil community.~ In the
 240 3 |              community.~ In the mind of one who is chastened and
 241 3 |        overtakes him, as one may say of an actor~who leaves the
 242 3 |         other things, nothing worthy of~blame, nothing which seeks
 243 3 |          nature and the constitution of the~rational animal. And
 244 3 |         point, and that all the rest of his life is~either past
 245 3 |            lives, and small the nook of the earth where he lives;
 246 3 |            continued by a~succession of poor human beings, who will
 247 3 |            definition or description of the thing which is~presented
 248 3 |             see distinctly what kind of a thing~it is in its substance,
 249 3 |           proper name, and the names of the things of which~it has
 250 3 |              the names of the things of which~it has been compounded,
 251 3 |             nothing is so productive of elevation of mind as to
 252 3 |              productive of elevation of mind as to be able to examine~
 253 3 |              the same time~what kind of universe this is, and what
 254 3 |      universe this is, and what kind of use everything~performs
 255 3 |             to man, who is a citizen of the highest~city, of which
 256 3 |         citizen of the highest~city, of which all other cities are
 257 3 |              what each thing is,~and of what it is composed, and
 258 3 |            how long it is the nature of this~thing to endure which
 259 3 |              what virtue I~have need of with respect to it, such
 260 3 |           apportionment and spinning of the thread of~destiny, and
 261 3 |           and spinning of the thread of~destiny, and such-like coincidence
 262 3 |         chance; and this is from one of~the same stock, and a kinsman
 263 3 |         according to the natural law of fellowship with~benevolence
 264 3 |       attempt to ascertain the value of each.~ If thou workest at
 265 3 |          ready for the understanding of things divine and human,
 266 3 |        smallest, with a recollection of the bond~which unites the
 267 3 |            own~memoirs, nor the acts of the ancient Romans and Hellenes,
 268 3 |            eyes, but by another kind of vision.~ Body, soul, intelligence:
 269 3 |              receive the~impressions of forms by means of appearances
 270 3 |        impressions of forms by means of appearances belongs even
 271 3 |             be pulled by the strings of desire belongs both to wild~
 272 3 |            nor disturb it by a crowd of images, but~to preserve
 273 3 |            is neither angry with any of them,~nor does he deviate
 274 3 |           way which leads to the end of life, to~which a man ought
 275 4 |              material for itself out of~that which opposes it, as
 276 4 |        opposes it, as fire lays hold of what falls into it, by~which
 277 4 |            and rises higher by means of this very material.~ Let
 278 4 |            to the perfect principles of art.~ Men seek retreats
 279 4 |            this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of
 280 4 |              of the most common sort of men,~for it is in thy power
 281 4 |          else than the good ordering of the mind. Constantly then~
 282 4 |       discontented? With the~badness of men? Recall to thy mind
 283 4 |             that to endure is a part of~justice, and that men do
 284 4 |              is assigned to thee~out of the universe.- Recall to
 285 4 |               fortuitous concurrence of things;~or remember the
 286 4 |             that the world~is a kind of political community, and
 287 4 |            own power, and think also of all that thou hast heard
 288 4 |               But perhaps the~desire of the thing called fame will
 289 4 |     forgotten, and look at the chaos of infinite time on~each side
 290 4 |           infinite time on~each side of the present, and the emptiness
 291 4 |           present, and the emptiness of applause, and the~changeableness
 292 4 |              changeableness and want of judgement in those who pretend
 293 4 |           praise, and the narrowness of the space within which it
 294 4 |           there~in it, and what kind of people are they who will
 295 4 |           into this little territory~of thy own, and above all do
 296 4 |     constantly bear in mind how many of these~changes thou hast
 297 4 |              reason also, in respect of~which we are rational beings,
 298 4 |           this is so, we are members of some political~community;
 299 4 |             in a manner a state. For of~what other common political
 300 4 |        source (for nothing comes out of that~which is nothing, as
 301 4 |             generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition~out
 302 4 |            nature; a composition~out of the same elements, and a
 303 4 |           and~altogether not a thing of which any man should be
 304 4 |           not contrary to the nature of a reasonable animal, and
 305 4 |           not contrary to~the reason of our constitution.~ It is
 306 4 |              persons, it~is a matter of necessity; and if a man
 307 4 |             from~within.~ The nature of that which is universally
 308 4 |            respect to the continuity of the series of things, but~
 309 4 |             continuity of the series of things, but~with respect
 310 4 |             not have such an opinion of things as he has who does
 311 4 |             only whatever the reason of the ruling and legislating
 312 4 |              may suggest for the use of men; the other, to change
 313 4 |             opinion. But this change of opinion must proceed only
 314 4 |             a certain~persuasion, as of what is just or of common
 315 4 |    persuasion, as of what is just or of common advantage, and the
 316 4 |          transmutation.~ Many grains of frankincense on the same
 317 4 |           principles and the~worship of reason.~ Do not act as if
 318 4 |         round at~the depraved morals of others, but run straight
 319 4 |              consider~that every one of those who remember him will
 320 4 |      rejectest~unseasonably the gift of nature, clinging to something
 321 4 |            not having praise as part of itself. Neither~worse then
 322 4 |          praised. I affirm~this also of the things which are called
 323 4 |            material things and works of art. That which is really~
 324 4 |         really~beautiful has no need of anything; not more than
 325 4 |        benevolence or modesty. Which of these things~is beautiful
 326 4 |             earth contain the bodies of those who~have been buried
 327 4 |             For as here the mutation of~these bodies after a certain
 328 4 |             the seminal intelligence of the universe, and in this
 329 4 |         might give on the hypothesis of souls continuing to~exist.
 330 4 |           But we must not only think of the number of bodies which
 331 4 |             only think of the number of bodies which are~thus buried,
 332 4 |            are~thus buried, but also of the number of animals which
 333 4 |               but also of the number of animals which are daily
 334 4 |          manner buried in the bodies of those who feed on them!
 335 4 |              receives them by reason of the changes of~these bodies
 336 4 |             by reason of the changes of~these bodies into blood,
 337 4 |              that which is the cause of~form, the formal.~ Do not
 338 4 |         justice, and on the occasion of every impression maintain
 339 4 |      impression maintain the~faculty of comprehension or understanding.~
 340 4 |             The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops; and wilt not~thou
 341 4 |              not~thou say, Dear city of Zeus?~ Occupy thyself with
 342 4 |              and whatever the reason of the animal which is~naturally
 343 4 |        things. For the greatest part of what we~say and do being
 344 4 |             ask himself, Is this one of the unnecessary things?
 345 4 |             after.~ Try how the life of the good man suits thee,
 346 4 |             man suits thee, the life of him who~is satisfied with
 347 4 |       satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied
 348 4 |          happened to thee?~Well; out of the universe from the beginning
 349 4 |        profit the present by the aid of reason~and justice. Be sober
 350 4 |            blind, who~shuts the eyes of the understanding; he is
 351 4 |             he is poor, who has need of~another, and has not from
 352 4 |              himself from the reason of our common nature through
 353 4 |         tears his own soul from that of reasonable~animals, which
 354 4 |           And I do not get the means of living out of my~learning,
 355 4 |              the means of living out of my~learning, and I abide
 356 4 |            and pass through the rest of life like one who has~intrusted
 357 4 |             the tyrant nor the slave of any man.~ Consider, for
 358 4 |               for example, the times of Vespasian. Thou wilt see
 359 4 |          power. Well then, that life of these people no~longer exists
 360 4 |           Again, remove to the times of Trajan. Again, all~is the
 361 4 |           view also the~other epochs of time and of whole nations,
 362 4 |             other epochs of time and of whole nations, and see how
 363 4 |          chiefly thou shouldst think of those whom thou hast thyself
 364 4 |        antiquated: so also~the names of those who were famed of
 365 4 |              of those who were famed of old, are now in a manner~
 366 4 |          buries them. And I say this of those who have~shone in
 367 4 |              gone, and no man speaks of them. And, to~conclude the
 368 4 |          from a principle and~source of the same kind.~ Willingly
 369 4 |            thyself up to Clotho, one of the Fates, allowing~her
 370 4 |             consider that the nature of the Universe loves~nothing
 371 4 |              is in a manner the seed~of that which will be. But
 372 4 |           But thou art thinking only of seeds which are~cast into
 373 4 | perturbations, nor without suspicion of being hurt by external things,~
 374 4 |        ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind~of things
 375 4 |         those of the wise, what kind~of things they avoid, and what
 376 4 |              in the ruling principle of~another; nor yet in any
 377 4 |             any turning and mutation of thy corporeal~covering.
 378 4 |             then? It is in that part of thee in which~subsists the
 379 4 |             which~subsists the power of forming opinions about evils.
 380 4 |           perception, the perception of this one living being; and
 381 4 |           are the cooperating~causes of all things which exist;
 382 4 |              the continuous~spinning of the thread and the contexture
 383 4 |            thread and the contexture of the web.~ Thou art a little
 384 4 |            to subsist in consequence of change.~ Time is like a
 385 4 |              is like a river made up of the events which happen,
 386 4 |           vexes~them.~ In the series of things those which follow
 387 4 |              like a mere~enumeration of disjointed things, which
 388 4 |           Always remember the saying of Heraclitus, that the death
 389 4 |           Heraclitus, that the death of earth is~to become water,
 390 4 |          become water, and the death of water is to become air,
 391 4 |            become air, and the~death of air is to become fire, and
 392 4 |             reversely. And think too of him~who forgets whither
 393 4 |         great pretensions the deaths of others; and~how many philosophers
 394 4 |            through this little space of time conformably to~nature,
 395 4 |              firm and tames the fury of the water around it.~ Unhappy
 396 4 |             not contrary to the will of~man's nature? Well, thou
 397 4 |          Well, thou knowest the will of nature. Will then this~which
 398 4 |     everything else, by the presence of which man's nature obtains
 399 4 |         useful help towards contempt of death,~to pass in review
 400 4 |            in company with what sort of people and in what a~feeble
 401 4 |           then~consider life a thing of any value. For look to the
 402 4 |            For look to the immensity of~time behind thee, and to
 403 5 |              I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then
 404 5 |            order their several parts of the universe? And art thou
 405 5 |             unwilling~to do the work of a human being, and dost
 406 5 |              but thou stoppest short of what thou canst do. So thou~
 407 5 |            dancing art, or the lover of money values his money,
 408 5 |             thy eyes and less worthy of~thy labour?~ How easy it
 409 5 |             not consider it unworthy of thee. For those persons
 410 5 |           common nature; and the way of both is one.~ I go through
 411 5 |         breath into that element out~of which I daily draw it in,
 412 5 |          falling upon that earth out of~which my father collected
 413 5 |           and my~nurse the milk; out of which during so many years
 414 5 |          cannot admire the sharpness of thy wits.- Be it~so: but
 415 5 |          there are many other things of which thou canst not say,
 416 5 |        sincerity, gravity, endurance of~labour, aversion to pleasure,
 417 5 |      benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom~from
 418 5 |             which there is no excuse of~natural incapacity and unfitness,
 419 5 |           being rather~slow and dull of comprehension, thou must
 420 5 |            in his own mind he thinks of the man as his debtor,~and
 421 5 |               Must a man then be one of these, who in a manner act
 422 5 |           necessary,~the observation of what a man is doing: for,
 423 5 |           said, it is~characteristic of the social animal to perceive
 424 5 |          reason thou wilt~become one of those of whom I spoke before,
 425 5 |             wilt~become one of those of whom I spoke before, for
 426 5 |             misled~by a certain show of reason. But if thou wilt
 427 5 |            to understand the~meaning of what is said, do not fear
 428 5 |            any social act.~ A prayer of the Athenians: Rain, rain,
 429 5 |          down on the~ploughed fields of the Athenians and on the
 430 5 |             is said, That~the nature of the universe prescribed
 431 5 |             or loss or anything else of the kind. For in the first
 432 5 |            to us, as the workmen say of~squared stones in walls
 433 5 |             one another in some kind of connexion. For there~is
 434 5 |              universe is made up out~of all bodies to be such a
 435 5 |              a body as it is, so out of all existing~causes necessity (
 436 5 |         prescribes. Many as a matter of course even among his prescriptions~
 437 5 |              accept them in the hope of health. Let the~perfecting
 438 5 |        perfecting and accomplishment of the things, which the common
 439 5 |              be judged by thee to be of the same kind as thy~health.
 440 5 |         leads to this, to the health of the~universe and to the
 441 5 |              prosperity and felicity of Zeus (the universe).~For
 442 5 |              Neither does the nature of anything,~whatever it may
 443 5 |     administers the universe a cause of felicity and~perfection,
 444 5 |             and~perfection, nay even of its very continuance. For
 445 5 |       continuance. For the integrity of the~whole is mutilated,
 446 5 |            and the continuity either of the parts or of the causes.~
 447 5 |    continuity either of the parts or of the causes.~And thou dost
 448 5 |           triest to put anything out of the way.~ Be not disgusted,
 449 5 |          content if the~greater part of what thou doest is consistent
 450 5 |            sore eyes and~apply a bit of sponge and egg, or as another
 451 5 |           itself, when thou~thinkest of the security and the happy
 452 5 |        security and the happy course of all things which~depend
 453 5 |          which~depend on the faculty of understanding and knowledge?~
 454 5 |            Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have
 455 5 |             may be in the possession of a filthy wretch or a whore
 456 5 |              Then turn to the morals of those who live with thee,
 457 5 |              even the most agreeable of them, to say nothing of~
 458 5 |              of them, to say nothing of~a man being hardly able
 459 5 |              so constant a flux both of substance and of time, and
 460 5 |           flux both of substance and of time, and of~motion and
 461 5 |           substance and of time, and of~motion and of things moved,
 462 5 |              time, and of~motion and of things moved, what there
 463 5 |             prized~or even an object of serious pursuit, I cannot
 464 5 |            conformable to the nature of the universe; and the other,
 465 5 |              have I now in this~part of me which they call the ruling
 466 5 |          whose soul have I~now? That of a child, or of a young man,
 467 5 |             now? That of a child, or of a young man, or of a feeble
 468 5 |         child, or of a young man, or of a feeble woman, or of a~
 469 5 |             or of a feeble woman, or of a~tyrant, or of a domestic
 470 5 |            woman, or of a~tyrant, or of a domestic animal, or of
 471 5 |             of a domestic animal, or of a wild beast?~ What kind
 472 5 |             a wild beast?~ What kind of things those are which appear
 473 5 |           receive it when it is said of wealth, and of the means
 474 5 |            it is said of wealth, and of the means which further~
 475 5 |     conception in the mind the words of the comic writer might be~
 476 5 |           himself in.~ I am composed of the formal and the material;
 477 5 |            the material; and neither of them~will perish into non-existence,
 478 5 |            non-existence, as neither of them came into existence~
 479 5 |              came into existence~out of non-existence. Every part
 480 5 |            non-existence. Every part of me then will be reduced
 481 5 |             by~change into some part of the universe, and that again
 482 5 |             change into~another part of the universe, and so on
 483 5 |             ever. And by consequence~of such a change I too exist,
 484 5 |        according to definite periods~of revolution.~ Reason and
 485 5 |             by the right road.~ None of these things ought to be
 486 5 |           man. They are not required of a man, nor does man's~nature
 487 5 |               nor are they the means of man's nature~attaining its
 488 5 |            Neither then does the end of man lie in these~things,
 489 5 |           aids to the accomplishment of this end, and~that which
 490 5 |             is good. Besides, if~any of these things did belong
 491 5 |            nor would a man be~worthy of praise who showed that he
 492 5 |           who stinted himself in any of them be good, if indeed
 493 5 |          were good. But now the more of these things a man deprives~
 494 5 |        things a man deprives~himself of, or of other things like
 495 5 |              deprives~himself of, or of other things like them,
 496 5 |             even when he is~deprived of any of them, the more patiently
 497 5 |           when he is~deprived of any of them, the more patiently
 498 5 |           also will be the character~of thy mind; for the soul is
 499 5 |             with~a continuous series of such thoughts as these:
 500 5 |           the advantage and the good of each thing. Now~the good