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 1 2 |      been given to thee. Thou seest how few the things are,
 2 3 |       choice; if, I say, thou seest anything better~than this,
 3 4 |      these things, which thou seest, change immediately~and
 4 5 | superior to one another. Thou seest how it has~subordinated,
 5 7 |  change all things which~thou seest, and out of their substance
 6 8 |       find fault because thou seest in their~workshop shavings
 7 9 |       ourselves. But now thou~seest how great is the trouble
 8 9 |  dissolution.~  All that thou seest will quickly perish, and
 9 9 |     honour? Imagine that thou seest their poor souls laid bare.
10 10|       to be done? And if thou seest clear, go by this way~content,
11 12|       have been so:- for thou~seest even of thyself that in
12 12|   things exist which thou now seest, nor any of those~who are