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 1 1 |     occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness; and
 2 2 |  operation of nature, he is a~child. This, however, is not only
 3 5 |    soul have I~now? That of a child, or of a young man, or of
 4 8 |       reported. I see that my child~is sick. I do see; but that
 5 9 | waitest for the time when the child shall come out of thy wife'
 6 9 |       thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy~manhood,
 7 10|     labours on it and makes a child. What a thing from~such
 8 10|   such a material! Again, the child passes food down through
 9 11|      harm, saying, Not so, my child: we are~constituted by nature
10 11|      art injuring thyself, my child.- And show him with~gentle
11 11|       is he who~looks for his child when it is no longer allowed.~
12 11|         When a man kisses his child, said Epictetus, he should
13 12|       man's own, but that his child~and his body and his very