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501 11|             the reason of justice.~ Thou wilt set little value on
502 11|      dancing and the~pancratium, if thou wilt distribute the melody
503 11|          ask thyself as to each, if thou art mastered by~this; for
504 11|           art mastered by~this; for thou wilt be prevented by shame
505 11|          each movement and attitude thou wilt do~the same; and the
506 11|     philosophising as this in which thou now~happenest to be.~ A
507 11|            to stand in thy way when thou art proceeding~according
508 11|             thee, still in a manner thou goest to them. Let then
509 11|         they will remain quiet, and~thou wilt not be seen either
510 11|         what evil is it to~thee, if thou art now doing what is agreeable
511 11|       nature~of the universe, since thou art a human being placed
512 11|            in a fair way.- What art thou doing, man? There is no~
513 11|               Fourth, consider that thou also doest many things wrong,
514 11|         many things wrong, and that~thou art a man like others; and
515 11|            like others; and even if thou dost abstain from certain~
516 11|          from certain~faults, still thou hast the disposition to
517 11|           or some such~mean motive, thou dost abstain from such faults.~
518 11|       faults.~ Fifth, consider that thou dost not even understand
519 11|         acts.~ Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved,
520 11|           is shameful is alone~bad, thou also must of necessity do
521 11|          violent man do to thee, if thou continuest to be of a kind~
522 11|              as opportunity offers, thou gently~admonishest him and
523 11|       certainly not be~injured, but thou art injuring thyself, my
524 11|        nature to be gregarious. And thou must do this neither with
525 11|             thy soul; and not as if thou wert lecturing him, nor
526 11|             these nine rules, as if thou hadst received them as a~
527 11|           at last to be a man while thou~livest. But thou must equally
528 11|          man while thou~livest. But thou must equally avoid flattering
529 11|            and both submit.~ But if thou wilt, receive also a tenth
530 11|      superior faculty against~which thou shouldst be constantly on
531 11|   constantly on thy guard, and when thou hast~detected them, thou
532 11|            thou hast~detected them, thou shouldst wipe them out and
533 11|            social~union: this which thou art going to say comes not
534 11|         from the real~thoughts; for thou shouldst consider it among
535 11|              But the fourth~is when thou shalt reproach thyself for
536 11|         writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down~rules
537 11|             rules for others before thou shalt have first learned
538 11|           this so in life.~ A slave thou art: free speech is not
539 11|       himself, "To-morrow perchance thou wilt die."- But those are
540 12|           ALL those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous~
541 12|        arrive by a circuitous~road, thou canst have now, if thou
542 12|             thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to
543 12|         thyself.~And this means, if thou wilt take no notice of all
544 12|          Conformably to piety, that thou mayest be content~with the
545 12|        Conformably to justice, that thou mayest always~speak the
546 12|       whatever the time may~be when thou shalt be near to thy departure,
547 12|          neglecting everything~else thou shalt respect only thy ruling
548 12|        divinity~within thee, and if thou shalt be afraid not because
549 12|         shalt be afraid not because thou must some~time cease to
550 12|          time cease to live, but if thou shalt fear never to have
551 12|           according to nature- then thou wilt be a man worthy of
552 12|        which has produced thee, and thou wilt cease to be a stranger
553 12|           into these bodies. And if thou also usest~thyself to do
554 12|           usest~thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy
555 12|           things are three of which thou art composed, a little body,
556 12|        properly thine. Therefore if thou shalt separate from~thyself,
557 12|             do or say,~and whatever thou hast done or said thyself,
558 12|            and saying the truth: if thou wilt separate, I say, from
559 12|             rest reposing;~ ~and if thou shalt strive to live only
560 12|          that~is, the present- then thou wilt be able to pass that
561 12|            in fact it is not~so, be thou convinced that it ought
562 12|           not to have been so:- for thou~seest even of thyself that
563 12|        thyself that in this inquiry thou art disputing with the~diety;
564 12|            even in the things which thou despairest of~accomplishing.
565 12|       application of thy principles thou must be like the~pancratiast,
566 12|      invincible necessity, why dost thou~resist? But if there is
567 12|      content that in such a~tempest thou hast in thyself a certain
568 12|           such a character? If then thou art irritable, cure this~
569 12|               Perceive at last that thou hast in thee something better
570 12|           Consider that before long thou wilt be nobody and nowhere,
571 12|           of the things exist which thou now seest, nor any of those~
572 12|         power.~Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and
573 12|             doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything~
574 12|              These three principles thou must have in readiness.
575 12|      readiness. In the things~which thou doest do nothing either
576 12|        according to Providence, and thou must neither blame chance
577 12|           it is resolved. Third, if thou~shouldst suddenly be raised
578 12|           consider that as often as thou shouldst be raised up, thou
579 12|         thou shouldst be raised up, thou wouldst see~the same things,
580 12|             of?~ Cast away opinion: thou art saved. Who then hinders
581 12|         from~casting it away?~ When thou art troubled about anything,
582 12|            troubled about anything, thou hast forgotten this,~that
583 12|        nothing to thee; and~further thou hast forgotten this, that
584 12|            but of intelligence. And thou hast forgotten this too,
585 12|   everything is opinion; and lastly thou hast forgotten that~every