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  1 2 |           is~not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise
  2 2 |         ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man;~no longer
  3 2 |            whole universe, of which thou art a~part. But that is
  4 2 |            thirst after books, that thou mayest not die murmuring,
  5 2 |            gods.~ Remember how long thou hast been putting off these
  6 2 |         these things, and how~often thou hast received an opportunity
  7 2 |            and yet dost~not use it. Thou must now at last perceive
  8 2 |           perceive of what universe thou art a~part, and of what
  9 2 |            fixed for thee, which if thou dost~not use for clearing
 10 2 |            thy mind, it will go and~thou wilt go, and it will never
 11 2 |          Roman and a man to do what thou~hast in hand with perfect
 12 2 |             all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief,
 13 2 |             give thyself relief, if thou doest~every act of thy life
 14 2 |             has been given to thee. Thou seest how few the things
 15 2 |            to thyself, my soul; but thou wilt~no longer have the
 16 2 |            whirled around. But then thou must also avoid being carried
 17 2 |         necessity be unhappy.~ This thou must always bear in mind,
 18 2 |    according to the nature of which thou art a part.~ Theophrastus,
 19 2 |           Since it is possible that thou mayest depart from life
 20 2 |            white and black.~ Though thou shouldst be going to live
 21 2 |          him? These two~things then thou must bear in mind; the one,
 22 3 |      Socrates. What means all this? Thou hast embarked,~thou hast
 23 3 |           this? Thou hast embarked,~thou hast made the voyage, thou
 24 3 |          thou hast made the voyage, thou art come to shore; get out.
 25 3 |            state without sensation, thou wilt cease to be held by~
 26 3 |         thoughts about others,~when thou dost not refer thy thoughts
 27 3 |       object of common~utility. For thou losest the opportunity of
 28 3 |           doing something else~when thou hast such thoughts as these,
 29 3 |             suddenly ask, What hast thou now in thy thoughts? With~
 30 3 |     thoughts? With~perfect openness thou mightest, immediately answer,
 31 3 |             anything else for~which thou wouldst blush if thou shouldst
 32 3 |         which thou wouldst blush if thou shouldst say that thou hadst
 33 3 |           if thou shouldst say that thou hadst it in~thy mind. For
 34 3 |           kept erect by others.~ If thou findest in human life anything
 35 3 |          thy own choice; if, I say, thou seest anything better~than
 36 3 |          soul, and enjoy that which thou~hast found to be the best.
 37 3 |           and cares for mankind; if thou~findest everything else
 38 3 |             to nothing else, for if thou dost once diverge and incline
 39 3 |          diverge and incline to~it, thou wilt no longer without distraction
 40 3 |           and carry us away. But do thou, I say, simply~and freely
 41 3 |      arrogance: only~take care that thou makest the inquiry by a
 42 3 |           is chastened and purified thou wilt find no~corrupt matter,
 43 3 |    ascertain the value of each.~ If thou workest at that which is
 44 3 |             divine part pure, as if thou shouldst~be bound to give
 45 3 |             it back immediately; if thou holdest to this,~expecting
 46 3 |          every word~and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live
 47 3 |          sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there
 48 3 |          require their skill, so do thou have principles~ready for
 49 3 |           another. For neither wilt~thou do anything well which pertains
 50 3 |            hazard; for neither wilt thou read thy own~memoirs, nor
 51 3 |         selections from books which thou wast reserving for thy old
 52 3 |        Hasten then to the end which thou hast before thee, and throwing~
 53 3 |             come to thy own aid, if thou carest at all for~thyself,
 54 4 |      sea-shores,~and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such
 55 4 |            is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into~
 56 4 |      fundamental, which, as soon as thou shalt~recur to them, will
 57 4 |            with the things to~which thou returnest. For with what
 58 4 |        returnest. For with what art thou discontented? With the~badness
 59 4 |         quiet at last.- But~perhaps thou art dissatisfied with that
 60 4 |          and think also of all that thou hast heard and assented~
 61 4 |       readiest to thy hand to which thou~shalt turn, let there be
 62 4 |             all these things, which thou seest, change immediately~
 63 4 |           how many of these~changes thou hast already witnessed.
 64 4 |       within a very short time both thou and he will be dead; and~
 65 4 |              happens justly, and if~thou observest carefully, thou
 66 4 |           thou observest carefully, thou wilt find it to be so. I
 67 4 |          its value. Observe then as thou hast begun;~and whatever
 68 4 |            hast begun;~and whatever thou doest, do it in conjunction
 69 4 |            brings reputation.~ Hast thou reason? I have.- Why then
 70 4 |            have.- Why then dost not thou use it? For if~this does
 71 4 |            own work, what else dost thou wish?~ Thou hast existed
 72 4 |          what else dost thou wish?~ Thou hast existed as a part.
 73 4 |             hast existed as a part. Thou shalt disappear in that
 74 4 |           produced thee; but rather thou shalt be received back into
 75 4 |        difference.~ Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those
 76 4 |         seem a god to those to whom thou art now a~beast and an ape,
 77 4 |          now a~beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles
 78 4 |           reason.~ Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand
 79 4 |        Death~hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy
 80 4 |          has a certain utility? For thou now rejectest~unseasonably
 81 4 |            of Cecrops; and wilt not~thou say, Dear city of Zeus?~
 82 4 |            says the philosopher, if thou~wouldst be tranquil.- But
 83 4 |       benevolent disposition.~ Hast thou seen those things? Look
 84 4 |            word, thy life~is short. Thou must turn to profit the
 85 4 |            poor as it may be, which thou hast learned, and be~content
 86 4 |             the times of Vespasian. Thou wilt see all~these things,
 87 4 |           the elements. But~chiefly thou shouldst think of those
 88 4 |        shouldst think of those whom thou hast thyself known~distracting
 89 4 |            and~proportion. For thus thou wilt not be dissatisfied,
 90 4 |             not be dissatisfied, if thou appliest~thyself to smaller
 91 4 |             that which will be. But thou art thinking only of seeds
 92 4 |           is a very vulgar notion.~ Thou wilt soon die, and thou
 93 4 |             Thou wilt soon die, and thou art not yet simple, not
 94 4 |      disposed towards all; nor dost thou yet place wisdom only~in
 95 4 |             contexture of the web.~ Thou art a little soul bearing
 96 4 |           If any god told thee that thou shalt die to-morrow, or
 97 4 |            the day after to-morrow, thou wouldst not care much whether
 98 4 |            or on the morrow, unless thou wast in the highest~degree
 99 4 |          die after as many years as thou canst name rather~than to-morrow.~
100 4 |           to the reckoning all whom thou hast known, one~after another.
101 4 |            a good fortune? And dost~thou in all cases call that a
102 4 |         will of~man's nature? Well, thou knowest the will of nature.
103 5 |         FIVE~ ~ IN THE morning when thou risest unwillingly, let
104 5 |             is more~pleasant.- Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure,
105 5 |            action or exertion? Dost thou not see the little plants,
106 5 |            of the universe? And art thou unwilling~to do the work
107 5 |             a human being, and dost thou not make haste to do~that
108 5 |        eating and drinking, and yet thou~goest beyond these bounds,
109 5 |          thy acts~it is not so, but thou stoppest short of what thou
110 5 |         thou stoppest short of what thou canst do. So thou~lovest
111 5 |           of what thou canst do. So thou~lovest not thyself, for
112 5 |          lovest not thyself, for if thou didst, thou wouldst love
113 5 |         thyself, for if thou didst, thou wouldst love thy nature~
114 5 |      unwashed and without food; but thou valuest thy own~own nature
115 5 |       movement;~which things do not thou regard, but go straight
116 5 |           it~for so many purposes.~ Thou sayest, Men cannot admire
117 5 |          many other things of which thou canst not say, I~am not
118 5 |          trifling magnanimity. Dost thou not see how many qualities
119 5 |          not see how many qualities thou~art immediately able to
120 5 |   incapacity and unfitness, and yet thou still remainest~voluntarily
121 5 |  voluntarily below the mark? Or art thou compelled through being~
122 5 |          mind? No,~by the gods: but thou mightest have been delivered
123 5 |          long ago. Only if in truth thou canst be charged with being
124 5 |          and dull of comprehension, thou must exert thyself about
125 5 |       perceive it.- It is true what thou sayest, but thou dost not~
126 5 |          true what thou sayest, but thou dost not~rightly understand
127 5 |           said: and for this reason thou wilt~become one of those
128 5 |      certain show of reason. But if thou wilt choose to understand
129 5 |           fear that for this reason thou wilt~omit any social act.~
130 5 |          the~whole is mutilated, if thou cuttest off anything whatever
131 5 |         parts or of the causes.~And thou dost cut off, as far as
132 5 |            it is in thy power, when thou art~dissatisfied, and in
133 5 |   discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost~not succeed in doing
134 5 |          right principles; but~when thou bast failed, return back
135 5 |            the~greater part of what thou doest is consistent with
136 5 |              and~love this to which thou returnest; and do not return
137 5 |      drenching with water. For thus thou wilt not fail to obey reason,~
138 5 |            fail to obey reason,~and thou wilt repose in it. And remember
139 5 |            thy nature requires; but thou wouldst have~something else
140 5 |            than wisdom itself, when thou~thinkest of the security
141 5 |             if the state~is harmed, thou must not be angry with him
142 5 |       universal substance, of which thou hast a very small~portion;
143 5 |          and how small a part of it thou art.~ Does another do me
144 5 |         body which~is all one, then thou must not strive to resist
145 5 |      understanding and reason.~ Art thou angry with him whose armpits
146 5 |            whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him~whose mouth
147 5 |           discovery. Well then, and thou hast~reason: by thy rational
148 5 |             him. For if he listens, thou wilt cure him, and~there
149 5 |       tragic actor nor whore...~ As thou intendest to live when thou
150 5 |         thou intendest to live when thou art gone out,...so it is
151 5 |           out of life, yet so as if thou wert suffering no harm.
152 5 |             and I quit it. Why dost thou think that this is any trouble?~
153 5 |            superior to one another. Thou seest how it has~subordinated,
154 5 |             are the best.~ How hast thou behaved hitherto to the
155 5 |             thy slaves? Consider if thou hast hitherto~behaved to
156 5 |   recollection both how many things thou hast passed~through, and
157 5 |        through, and how many things thou hast been able to endure:
158 5 |           how many beautiful things thou hast seen: and how many
159 5 |            many pleasures~and pains thou hast despised; and how many
160 5 |            things called honourable~thou hast spurned; and to how
161 5 |           how many ill-minded folks thou hast shown~a kind disposition.~
162 5 |         universe.~ Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton,
163 5 |          empty thing. Why then dost thou~not wait in tranquility
164 5 |            thine nor in thy power.~ Thou canst pass thy life in an
165 5 |       equable flow of happiness, if thou~canst go by the right way,
166 5 |            that it was a top, so do thou in this case also.~ When
167 5 |            in this case also.~ When thou art calling out on the Rostra,
168 5 |             out on the Rostra, hast thou forgotten, man,~what these
169 5 |       concern to~these people- wilt thou too then be made a fool
170 6 |          difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm,~if thou
171 6 |           thou art cold or warm,~if thou art doing thy duty; and
172 6 |         doing thy duty; and whether thou art drowsy or satisfied~
173 6 |           in him who governs.~ When thou hast been compelled by circumstances
174 6 |           the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over~
175 6 |    continually recurring to it.~ If thou hadst a step-mother and
176 6 |            mother at the same time, thou~wouldst be dutiful to thy
177 6 |          thy step-mother, but still thou wouldst~constantly return
178 6 |           in her, through whom what thou meetest with in the court~
179 6 |      appears to thee tolerable, and thou appearest tolerable in the
180 6 |             of the reason,~and when thou art most sure that thou
181 6 |             thou art most sure that thou art employed about things~
182 6 |            respiratory power, which thou didst receive at thy birth~
183 6 |           to the element from~which thou didst first draw it.~ Neither
184 6 |          tongues. Suppose then that thou hast given up~this worthless
185 6 |      teaching. And if this is well,~thou wilt not seek anything else.
186 6 |            seek anything else. Wilt thou not cease to value many~
187 6 |         many~other things too? Then thou wilt be neither free, nor
188 6 |           passion. For of necessity thou must~be envious, jealous,
189 6 |            very much the~same as if thou shouldst be grieved because
190 6 |          all things~and objects, do thou, since thou hast reason
191 6 |             objects, do thou, since thou hast reason and they have
192 6 |             length of time in which thou shalt do this; for even
193 6 |            concern the soul: and so thou wilt not wonder if many
194 6 |       Antoninus is written, wouldst thou with a straining of the
195 6 |            if they grow angry, wilt thou be angry too?~Wilt thou
196 6 |             thou be angry too?~Wilt thou not go on with composure
197 6 |     profitable! And~yet in a manner thou dost not allow them to do
198 6 |         allow them to do this, when thou art~vexed because they do
199 6 |           give way.~ Take care that thou art not made into a Caesar,
200 6 |            made into a Caesar, that thou art not~dyed with this dye;
201 6 | superstition.~Imitate all this that thou mayest have as good a conscience,
202 6 |         call thyself back; and when thou hast~roused thyself from
203 6 |           the~things about thee) as thou didst look at those (the
204 6 |          patricides,~tyrants.~ Dost thou not see how the handicraftsmen
205 6 |        another kind~from that which thou dost venerate, but form
206 6 |              and~the men among whom thou hast received thy portion,
207 6 |              and to think, that, if thou dost live and act~according
208 6 |            are not within thy power thou shalt~suppose to be good
209 6 |          loss of such a good thing, thou~wilt blame the gods, and
210 6 |          among what kind of workmen thou placest thyself; for he
211 6 |      conduce to one end. But be not thou such a part as the mean~
212 6 |             sufficient. But further thou wilt~observe this also as
213 6 |         also as a general truth, if thou dost observe, that~whatever
214 6 |         liars and unjust men.~ When thou wishest to delight thyself,
215 6 |          must keep them before us.~ Thou art not dissatisfied, I
216 6 |    dissatisfied, I suppose, because thou weighest only~so many litrae
217 6 |          not dissatisfied then that~thou must live only so many years
218 6 |          years and not more; for as thou art~satisfied with the amount
219 6 |            with a reservation, that thou didst not desire to do~impossibilities.
220 6 |    impossibilities. What then didst thou desire?- Some such effort
221 6 |           such effort as~this.- But thou attainest thy object, if
222 6 |              if the things to which thou~wast moved are accomplished.~
223 6 |           Why then am I angry? Dost thou think that a false opinion
224 7 |           badness? It is that which thou hast often seen. And on
225 7 |         mind, that it is~that which thou hast often seen. Everywhere
226 7 |              Everywhere up and down thou wilt find~the same things,
227 7 |           state of thy affects, and thou~standest erect. To recover
228 7 |             Look at things~again as thou didst use to look at them;
229 7 |       busies~himself.~ In discourse thou must attend to what is said,
230 7 |         said, and in every movement~thou must observe what is doing.
231 7 |            is doing. And in the one thou shouldst see~immediately
232 7 |             How then, if being lame~thou canst not mount up on the
233 7 |            things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if~it
234 7 |           the same reason which now thou~usest for present things.~
235 7 |            according to reason.~ Be thou erect, or be made erect.~
236 7 |           more apparent to thee, if thou often sayest to thyself
237 7 |             if (using the~letter r) thou sayest that thou art a part (
238 7 |          letter r) thou sayest that thou art a part (meros) thou
239 7 |             thou art a part (meros) thou dost not yet~love men from
240 7 |      delight thee for its~own sake; thou still doest it barely as
241 7 |           good thing. What~then art thou doing here, O imagination?
242 7 |        entreat thee by~the gods, as thou didst come, for I want thee
243 7 |            for I want thee not. But thou art come~according to thy
244 7 |         universal nature?~And canst thou take a bath unless the wood
245 7 |       undergoes a change? And~canst thou be nourished, unless the
246 7 |   accomplished without change? Dost thou~not see then that for thyself
247 7 |             change all things which~thou seest, and out of their
248 7 |            has done wrong. For when thou hast~seen this, thou wilt
249 7 |           when thou hast~seen this, thou wilt pity him, and wilt
250 7 |            nor be angry.~For either thou thyself thinkest the same
251 7 |          then to~pardon him. But if thou dost not think such things
252 7 |          things to be good or evil,~thou wilt more readily be well
253 7 |           Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou
254 7 |            thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of~the things
255 7 |             but of~the things which thou hast select the best, and
256 7 |          would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the~same
257 7 |         time however take care that thou dost not through being so~
258 7 |             to be~disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.~
259 7 |          and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for
260 7 |   sufficient answer, which~is this: Thou sayest not well, if thou
261 7 |            Thou sayest not well, if thou thinkest that a man who
262 7 |         courses of the stars, as if thou wert going~along with them;
263 7 |           of political supremacies. Thou~mayest foresee also the
264 7 |           years. For what more wilt thou see?~ ~ That which has grown
265 7 |              Nowhere. Why then dost thou too choose to act in the
266 7 |          the same way? And why~dost thou not leave these agitations
267 7 |          moved by them? And why art thou~not altogether intent upon
268 7 |            happen to thee? For then thou wilt use them well, and
269 7 |         good man in every act which thou doest: and~remember...~
270 7 |             will ever bubble~up, if thou wilt ever dig.~ The body
271 7 |         those are whose approbation thou wishest to~have, and what
272 7 |   principles they possess. For then thou wilt~neither blame those
273 7 |             involuntarily, nor wilt thou want their~approbation,
274 7 |          want their~approbation, if thou lookest to the sources of
275 7 |        constantly in mind, for thus thou wilt be~more gentle towards
276 7 |     intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bearest in mind that it~
277 7 |           it~has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in
278 7 |       having no~appetite. When then thou art discontented about any
279 7 |        things,~say to thyself, that thou art yielding to pain.~ Take
280 7 |             happy life. And~because thou hast despaired of becoming
281 7 |         under its observation: This~thou art in substance (reality),
282 7 |             though in men's opinion thou mayest~appear to be of a
283 7 |         which falls under the hand: Thou art the thing that I was
284 7 |            of them in all~ways. But thou, who art destined to end
285 7 |        destined to end so soon, art thou wearied of~enduring the
286 7 |          the bad, and this too when thou art one of them?~ It is
287 7 |           inferior to~itself.~ When thou hast done a good act and
288 7 |           has received it, why dost~thou look for a third thing besides
289 8 |            thyself it is plain that thou art far~from philosophy.
290 8 |            art far~from philosophy. Thou hast fallen into disorder
291 8 |            also opposes it. If then thou hast truly seen where the~
292 8 |         throw away the thought, How thou shalt seem to others,~and
293 8 |           others,~and be content if thou shalt live the rest of thy
294 8 |             else~distract thee; for thou hast had experience of many
295 8 |           nevertheless, even~though thou shouldst burst.~ This is
296 8 |     universal; and in a little time thou~wilt be nobody and nowhere,
297 8 |         parts together of another.~ Thou hast not leisure or ability
298 8 |             or ability to read. But thou hast leisure or~ability
299 8 |         ability to check arrogance: thou hast leisure to be superior
300 8 |      superior to~pleasure and pain: thou hast leisure to be superior
301 8 |         long does it subsist?~ When thou risest from sleep with reluctance,
302 8 |            Dialectic.~ Whatever man thou meetest with, immediately
303 8 |             thy own power, why dost thou do it? But if it is in~the
304 8 |         power of another, whom dost thou blame? The atoms (chance)
305 8 |             gods? Both are foolish. Thou must blame nobody. For if
306 8 |           must blame nobody. For if thou canst,~correct that which
307 8 |          which is the cause; but if thou canst not do this,~correct
308 8 |            the thing itself; but if thou canst not do even this,~
309 8 |             horse, a vine. Why dost thou~wonder? Even the sun will
310 8 |           For what purpose then art thou? to~enjoy pleasure? See
311 8 |       opinion or an act or a word.~ Thou sufferest this justly: for
312 8 |          sufferest this justly: for thou choosest rather to become~
313 8 |           Remember this power~which thou hast from nature.~ Speak
314 8 |             ready to~let it go.~ If thou didst ever see a hand cut
315 8 |     anything unsocial. Suppose that~thou hast detached thyself from
316 8 |         from the natural unity- for thou wast made~by nature a part,
317 8 |           by nature a part, but now thou hast cut thyself off- yet
318 8 |          the various troubles which thou~mayest expect to befall
319 8 |   intolerable and past bearing? For~thou wilt be ashamed to confess.
320 8 |        reduced to a very little, if thou only circumscribest~it,
321 8 |             and blood in a bag.~ If thou canst see sharp, look and
322 8 |             that is temperance.~ If thou takest away thy opinion
323 8 |          appears to give~thee pain, thou thyself standest in perfect
324 8 |        towards an object? if indeed thou wast making this~effort
325 8 |             rational~animal. But if thou takest into consideration
326 8 |             usual course of~things, thou hast not yet been injured
327 8 |             to~its value.~ See that thou secure this present time
328 8 |           Take me and cast me where thou wilt; for there I shall
329 8 |           affrighted? And what wilt thou find~which is sufficient
330 8 |           and natural, why shouldst thou complain? For the~common
331 8 |           not be borne by thee.~ If thou art pained by any external
332 8 |            thy~opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou
333 8 |             thou art pained because thou art not doing some~particular
334 8 |          thee to be right, why dost thou not~rather act than complain?-
335 8 |             been reported; but that thou~hast been injured, that
336 8 |       things made in the world? For thou wilt be ridiculed by a man
337 8 |          acquainted with nature, as thou wouldst be ridiculed by
338 8 |          carpenter~and shoemaker if thou didst find fault because
339 8 |            didst find fault because thou seest in their~workshop
340 8 |            polluted. How then shalt thou possess a perpetual fountain
341 8 |             himself. What then dost thou think of him who avoids
342 8 |          are~or who they are?~ Dost thou wish to be praised by a
343 8 |          thrice~every hour? Wouldst thou wish to please a man who
344 8 |           kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation,
345 8 |             sensation, neither wilt~thou feel any harm; and if thou
346 8 |          thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind
347 8 |          another kind of~sensation, thou wilt be a different kind
348 8 |            kind of living being and thou wilt~not cease to live.~
349 9 |              as the saying is. Hast thou determined~to abide with
350 9 |            operations of nature. As thou now~waitest for the time
351 9 |            of this~envelope. But if thou requirest also a vulgar
352 9 |        which~shall reach thy heart, thou wilt be made best reconciled
353 9 |    observing the objects from which thou art going to be removed,
354 9 |    principles as ourselves. But now thou~seest how great is the trouble
355 9 |          who live together, so that thou mayest say, Come quick,
356 9 |            too strong for them; and thou wilt see~what I say, if
357 9 |             wilt see~what I say, if thou only observest. Sooner,
358 9 |          kind as reason itself.~ If thou art able, correct by teaching
359 9 |          those who do wrong; but if~thou canst not, remember that
360 9 |             leading principles, and thou wilt see~what judges thou
361 9 |           thou wilt see~what judges thou art afraid of, and what
362 9 |            things are changing: and thou thyself art in continuous
363 9 |            under~thy father; and as thou findest many other differences
364 9 |             neighbour: thy own that thou mayest make it just:~and
365 9 |          that of the universe, that thou mayest remember of what
366 9 |             mayest remember of what thou art a~part; and that of
367 9 |         that of thy neighbour, that thou mayest know whether he~has
368 9 |            with knowledge, and that thou mayest also~consider that
369 9 |       faculty is akin to thine.~ As thou thyself art a component
370 9 |          naturally made to endure.~ Thou hast endured infinite troubles
371 9 |          what kind of men they are. Thou wilt discover that there
372 9 |         opinion about thee. However thou must be well disposed towards
373 9 |       effect, and if this is so, be thou~content with that which
374 9 |             if chance rules, do not thou~also be governed by it.~
375 9 |           according to thy nature.~ Thou canst remove out of the
376 9 |        entirely in thy opinion; and thou~wilt then gain for thyself
377 9 |             dissolution.~  All that thou seest will quickly perish,
378 9 |            and~honour? Imagine that thou seest their poor souls laid
379 9 |       without end. What, then, dost thou say? That all things~have
380 9 |           and apish tricks. Why art~thou disturbed? What is there
381 9 |          dispersion. Why, then, art thou~disturbed? Say to the ruling
382 9 |             the ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou~corrupted,
383 9 |         faculty, Art thou dead, art thou~corrupted, art thou playing
384 9 |             art thou~corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art
385 9 |          playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast,~dost thou
386 9 |           thou become a beast,~dost thou herd and feed with the rest?~
387 9 |             have no power, why dost thou pray to them? But if they
388 9 |           they have power, why~dost thou not pray for them to give
389 9 |             any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring
390 9 |             any of the~things which thou desirest, or not being pained
391 9 |         these purposes. But perhaps thou wilt say, the gods have
392 9 |           pray for such~things, and thou wilt see. One man prays
393 9 |             lie with that woman? Do thou pray thus: How shall I not
394 9 |             not lose my little son? Thou thus: How shall I not be~
395 9 |            did both in sickness, if thou~art sick, and in any other
396 9 |           intent only on~that which thou art now doing and on the
397 9 |             the instrument by which thou~doest it.~ When thou art
398 9 |          which thou~doest it.~ When thou art offended with any man'
399 9 |           For at the same time that thou~dost remind thyself that
400 9 |            of men should~not exist, thou wilt become more kindly
401 9 |        astray. Besides wherein hast thou been injured? For thou~wilt
402 9 |         hast thou been injured? For thou~wilt find that no one among
403 9 |            among those against whom thou art irritated~has done anything
404 9 |  uninstructed man? Consider whether~thou shouldst not rather blame
405 9 |       rather blame thyself, because thou didst not~expect such a
406 9 |           to err in such a way. For thou hadst means given~thee by
407 9 |          commit this error, and yet thou hast forgotten and art amazed
408 9 |         erred. But most of all when thou blamest a man as faithless~
409 9 |         manifestly thy own,~whether thou didst trust that a man who
410 9 |             conferring thy kindness thou didst not~confer it absolutely,
411 9 |          profit. For what more dost thou want when thou hast~done
412 9 |            more dost thou want when thou hast~done a man a service?
413 9 |           done a man a service? Art thou not content that thou hast
414 9 |           Art thou not content that thou hast done~something conformable
415 9 |             to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for~it?
416 10|                    BOOK TEN~ ~ WILT thou, then, my soul, never be
417 10|          which surrounds thee? Wilt thou~never enjoy an affectionate
418 10|         contented disposition? Wilt thou never~be full and without
419 10|           yet desiring time wherein thou shalt~have longer enjoyment,
420 10|            society of~men with whom thou mayest live in harmony?
421 10|           live in harmony? But wilt thou be~satisfied with thy present
422 10|             is~about thee, and wilt thou convince thyself that thou
423 10|          thou convince thyself that thou hast everything~and that
424 10|             other like things? Wilt thou never be such that thou~
425 10|             thou never be such that thou~shalt so dwell in community
426 10|          nature requires, so far as thou art governed by~nature only:
427 10|            if thy nature, so far as thou~art a living being, shall
428 10|         made worse by it.~ And next thou must observe what thy nature
429 10|           nature requires so far as thou~art a living being. And
430 10|          living being. And all this thou mayest allow thyself, if
431 10|            if thy~nature, so far as thou art a rational animal, shall
432 10|             happens in such wise as thou art~formed by nature to
433 10|            nature to bear it, or as thou art not formed by nature
434 10|      happens to thee in such way as thou art formed~by nature to
435 10|            complain, but bear it as thou art~formed by nature to
436 10|             happens in such wise as thou~art not formed by nature
437 10|             Remember, however, that thou art~formed by nature to
438 10|          show him his error.~But if thou art not able, blame thyself,
439 10|            flow on~happily, just as thou mayest observe that the
440 10|    objection to what is said.~ When thou hast assumed these names,
441 10|         magnanimous, take care that thou dost not~change these names;
442 10|          change these names; and if thou shouldst lose them, quickly
443 10|          all such things. If, then, thou~maintainest thyself in the
444 10|           by these names by others, thou wilt be another person and~
445 10|           to continue to be such as thou hast~hitherto been, and
446 10|             these~few names: and if thou art able to abide in them,
447 10|          abide in them, abide as if thou~wast removed to certain
448 10|        islands of the Happy. But if thou shalt~perceive that thou
449 10|            thou shalt~perceive that thou fallest out of them and
450 10|   courageously into some nook where thou shalt maintain them, or
451 10|          will greatly help thee, if thou~rememberest the gods, and
452 10|             like themselves; and if thou~rememberest that what does
453 10|        without studying~nature dost thou imagine, and how many dost
454 10|          imagine, and how many dost thou neglect? But it is~thy duty
455 10|            concealed. For when wilt thou enjoy simplicity, when~gravity,
456 10|           Are not~these robbers, if thou examinest their opinions?~
457 10|            ought to be done? And if thou seest clear, go by this
458 10|        without turning back: but if thou dost not see clear, stop~
459 10|           reach this object, and~if thou dost fail, let thy failure
460 10|       Inquire of thyself as soon as thou wakest from sleep, whether
461 10|           will make no difference.~ Thou hast not forgotten, I suppose,
462 10|            at bed and at board, and thou hast not forgotten what
463 10|          and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou~
464 10|           thou wilt; take back what thou~wilt. And he says this not
465 10|            universe, that I love as thou lovest. And is not this
466 10|            to be produced"?~ Either thou livest here and hast already
467 10|        accustomed thyself to it,~or thou art going away, and this
468 10|           this was thy own will; or thou art dying~and hast discharged
469 10|          the sea-shore, or wherever thou choosest to be.~For thou
470 10|            thou choosest to be.~For thou wilt find just what Plato
471 10|             the same form,~whatever thou hast learned from thy experience
472 10|         occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and~ask thyself,
473 10|        deprives thee~of this.~ When thou art offended at any man'
474 10|         reflect in what like manner thou dost err thyself; for example,
475 10|            For by attending to this thou wilt quickly~forget thy
476 10|            else could he do? or, if thou art able, take~away from
477 10|           him the compulsion.~ When thou hast seen Satyron the Socratic,
478 10|         Eutyches~or Hymen, and when thou hast seen Euphrates, think
479 10|     Eutychion or~Silvanus, and when thou hast seen Alciphron think
480 10|             Tropaeophorus,~and when thou hast seen Xenophon think
481 10|          Crito or Severus, and when~thou hast looked on thyself,
482 10|        where. For~thus continuously thou wilt look at human things
483 10|       nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time
484 10|      infinite~duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of
485 10|          thy~existence? And why art thou not content to pass through
486 10|    opportunity for thy activity~art thou avoiding? For what else
487 10|          life?~Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things
488 10|           to say truly of thee that thou~art not simple or that thou
489 10|         thou~art not simple or that thou are not good; but let him
490 10|           being good and simple? Do thou only determine to live no
491 10|           to live no longer,~unless thou shalt be such. For neither
492 10|       reason allow thee to live,~if thou art not such.~ What is that
493 10|            do not make~excuses that thou art hindered. Thou wilt
494 10|             that thou art hindered. Thou wilt not cease to lament
495 10|       common to all things, and yet thou avoidest and~pursuest all
496 10|         eternal. A little time, and~thou shalt close thy eyes; and
497 10|          who wish to get rid of us. Thou wilt consider~this then
498 10|             consider~this then when thou art dying, and thou wilt
499 10|            when thou art dying, and thou wilt depart more contentedly~
500 10|            the other hand not as if thou wast torn away; but~as when