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1 1 | liberally.~ From my governor, to be neither of the green nor
2 1 | people's affairs, and not to be~ready to listen to slander.~
3 1 | from him I learned not to be led~astray to sophistic
4 1 | words, or done me wrong, to be easily disposed to be~pacified
5 1 | to be easily disposed to be~pacified and reconciled,
6 1 | have shown a readiness to~be reconciled; and to read
7 1 | read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a~superficial
8 1 | except~to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp
9 1 | example that the same man can be both most~resolute and yielding,
10 1 | occupations.~ From Catulus, not to be indifferent when a friend
11 1 | usual disposition; and to be ready to speak well of teachers,~
12 1 | self-government, and not to be led aside by~anything; and
13 1 | appearance of a man who could not be diverted from right~rather
14 1 | his friends, and not to be soon tired of them, nor
15 1 | tired of them, nor yet to be~extravagant in his affection;
16 1 | in his affection; and to be satisfied on all occasions,~
17 1 | and all flattery; and to be ever watchful over the things~
18 1 | administration of the empire, and to be a~good manager of the expenditure,
19 1 | one acknowledged him to be a man ripe, perfect, above~
20 1 | reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was
21 1 | looked to what ought to be done, not to the reputation
22 1 | consistently. And that might be applied to him which is
23 1 | enjoy~without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear
24 1 | both to bear the one and to be~sober in the other is the
25 1 | to the~things which must be done for the public interest
26 2 | divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them,
27 2 | what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor~
28 2 | acting~against one another to be vexed and to turn away.~
29 2 | man;~no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled
30 2 | this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like~
31 2 | movements, no longer either be dissatisfied~with thy present
32 2 | elements. Let these principles~be enough for thee, let them
33 2 | for thee, let them always be fixed opinions. But cast
34 2 | new and good, and cease to be~whirled around. But then
35 2 | has~seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do
36 2 | minds must of necessity be unhappy.~ This thou must
37 2 | overpowered by pleasure, seems to be in a manner~more intemperate
38 2 | through pain is compelled to be angry; but the other~is
39 2 | gods, is not a thing to be afraid of, for~the gods
40 2 | this also, that it should be altogether in a man's~power
41 2 | will then consider it to be nothing else than an operation~
42 2 | the things from~men should be dear to us by reason of
43 2 | black.~ Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand
44 2 | which is lost appears to be a mere~moment. For a man
45 2 | thing of which a man can be deprived, if~it is true
46 2 | a man~receives what may be got out of it as far as
47 2 | so far~as it can. For to be vexed at anything which
48 2 | own and any movement to be~without an aim, and does
49 2 | even the smallest things~be done with reference to an
50 3 | another thing also must be taken~into the account,
51 3 | will not seem to him to be in a~manner disposed so
52 3 | woman and an~old man he will be able to see a certain maturity
53 3 | of young persons he will be able to look~on with chaste
54 3 | sensation, thou wilt cease to be held by~pains and pleasures,
55 3 | pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which
56 3 | from thy words it should be plain that everything in
57 3 | noblest fight, one who~cannot be overpowered by any passion,
58 3 | set off thy thoughts, and be not either a man of many~
59 3 | the deity which~is in thee be the guardian of a living
60 3 | of any~man's testimony. Be cheerful also, and seek
61 3 | then must stand erect, not be~kept erect by others.~ If
62 3 | which thou~hast found to be the best. But if nothing
63 3 | But if nothing appears to be better than~the deity which
64 3 | longer without distraction be able to give the~preference
65 3 | anything else which can be done with decency and~order;
66 3 | mentioned let this one still be added:-~Make for thyself
67 3 | and into which it will be resolved. For~nothing is
68 3 | elevation of mind as to be able to examine~methodically
69 3 | pure, as if thou shouldst~be bound to give it back immediately;
70 3 | quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for~this is not effected
71 3 | belongs even to~animals; to be pulled by the strings of
72 3 | peculiar~to the good man, to be pleased and content with
73 4 | very material.~ Let no act be done without a purpose,
74 4 | and let thy~principles be brief and fundamental, which,
75 4 | shalt~recur to them, will be sufficient to cleanse the
76 4 | dead, reduced to ashes; and be quiet at last.- But~perhaps
77 4 | political community, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps~
78 4 | about pain and pleasure, and be quiet at last.- But perhaps
79 4 | it is~circumscribed, and be quiet at last. For the whole
80 4 | distract or strain thyself, but be~free, and look at things
81 4 | thou~shalt turn, let there be these, which are two. One
82 4 | immediately~and will no longer be; and constantly bear in
83 4 | of which any man should be ashamed, for it is~not contrary
84 4 | that these things should be done by such persons, it~
85 4 | time both thou and he will be dead; and~soon not even
86 4 | not even your names will be left behind.~ Take away
87 4 | carefully, thou wilt find it to be so. I do not say~only with
88 4 | is properly understood to be~good. Keep to this in every
89 4 | thee; but rather thou shalt be received back into its seminal~
90 4 | while it is in thy power, be good.~ How much trouble
91 4 | does himself,~that it may be just and pure; or as Agathon
92 4 | that the remembrance will~be immortal, what then is this
93 4 | continuance, whatever it may be, and~their dissolution make
94 4 | form, the formal.~ Do not be whirled about, but in every
95 4 | philosopher, if thou~wouldst be tranquil.- But consider
96 4 | consider if it would not be better to say,~Do what is
97 4 | aid of reason~and justice. Be sober in thy relaxation.~
98 4 | the art, poor as it may be, which thou hast learned,
99 4 | which thou hast learned, and be~content with it; and pass
100 4 | hold firmly to~this and to be content with it. And herein
101 4 | For thus thou wilt not be dissatisfied, if thou appliest~
102 4 | seed~of that which will be. But thou art thinking only
103 4 | opinions about these~things be quiet, that is, let it judge
104 4 | its place, and this will be carried away~too.~ Everything
105 4 | little mucus to-morrow will be a mummy or~ashes. Pass then
106 4 | tree on which it grew.~ Be like the promontory against
107 4 | a thing seem to thee to be a~deviation from man's nature,
108 4 | have carried out~many to be buried, and then were carried
109 5 | unwillingly, let this thought be~present- I am rising to
110 5 | unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.~ Judge
111 5 | are according to nature to be fit~for thee; and be not
112 5 | to be fit~for thee; and be not diverted by the blame
113 5 | but if a thing is good to be done or~said, do not consider
114 5 | sharpness of thy wits.- Be it~so: but there are many
115 5 | nature to murmur, and to be stingy, and to~flatter,
116 5 | make great display, and to be so restless in thy mind?
117 5 | Only if in truth thou canst be charged with being rather~
118 5 | season.- Must a man then be one of these, who in a manner
119 5 | man is doing: for, it may be said, it is~characteristic
120 5 | up out~of all bodies to be such a body as it is, so
121 5 | destiny) is made up to be such a cause as it is. And~
122 5 | common nature~judges to be good, be judged by thee
123 5 | nature~judges to be good, be judged by thee to be of
124 5 | good, be judged by thee to be of the same kind as thy~
125 5 | anything,~whatever it may be, cause anything which is
126 5 | reasons then it is right to be content with~that which
127 5 | anything out of the way.~ Be not disgusted, nor discouraged,
128 5 | return back again, and be content if the~greater part
129 5 | according to nature.- It may be objected,~Why what is more
130 5 | worthless, and that they~may be in the possession of a filthy
131 5 | natural dissolution and not to be vexed at the delay, but
132 5 | anything which should not be in harmony with what is~
133 5 | which~appear to the many to be good, he will listen and
134 5 | not offend and would not be rejected in the first case,
135 5 | and think those things to be good, to which after their~
136 5 | of the comic writer might be~aptly applied- that he who
137 5 | Every part of me then will be reduced by~change into some
138 5 | of these things ought to be called a man's, which do
139 5 | belong to man, it would not be right for a man~to despise
140 5 | against them; nor would a man be~worthy of praise who showed
141 5 | stinted himself in any of them be good, if indeed these~things
142 5 | thoughts, such also will be the character~of thy mind;
143 5 | ignorance and~conceit should be stronger than wisdom.~ Things
144 5 | is harmed, thou must not be angry with him who does
145 5 | which leads and governs be undisturbed by~the movements
146 5 | man has reason, it will~be said, and he is able, if
147 5 | such a way that this may be said of thee:~ ~ Never has
148 5 | Soon, very soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and
149 5 | every rational being, not to be hindered by~another; and
150 5 | the common weal?~ Do not be carried along inconsiderately
151 5 | do not imagine this to be a damage. For it is a bad
152 5 | people- wilt thou too then be made a fool for these things?-
153 6 | change, and they will either be reduced~to vapour, if indeed
154 6 | substance is one, or they will be dispersed.~ The reason which
155 6 | and such as it wills to be, it~also makes everything
156 6 | happens appear to itself to be such as~it wills.~ In conformity
157 6 | compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in~a manner, quickly
158 6 | same time, thou~wouldst be dutiful to thy step-mother,
159 6 | court and philosophy now be~to thee step-mother and
160 6 | set a high price? It would be just as if a man should
161 6 | as in plants, a thing to be valued, nor~respiration,
162 6 | is worth being~valued? To be received with clapping of
163 6 | which has been made should be adapted to the work for
164 6 | things too? Then thou wilt be neither free, nor sufficient
165 6 | For of necessity thou must~be envious, jealous, and suspicious
166 6 | Of necessity a man must be altogether in a state of
167 6 | with themselves; but to be themselves~praised by posterity,
168 6 | same as if thou shouldst be grieved because those who
169 6 | a thing is difficult to be accomplished by thyself,
170 6 | nature, think that this can be attained~by thyself too.~
171 6 | like this~let thy behaviour be in all the other parts of
172 6 | they grow angry, wilt thou be angry too?~Wilt thou not
173 6 | which~appear to them to be suitable to their nature
174 6 | because they suppose them to be suitable to their nature
175 6 | a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this
176 6 | acts. Strive to continue to be such as philosophy wished
177 6 | and everything which will be for~time without end; for
178 6 | power thou shalt~suppose to be good for thee or evil, it
179 6 | evil, it must of necessity be that,~if such a bad thing
180 6 | suspected of being likely~to be the cause; and indeed we
181 6 | which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains
182 6 | conduce to one end. But be not thou such a part as
183 6 | accept with pleasure and to be content with~them. But if
184 6 | the universal: this might be sufficient. But further
185 6 | let the word profitable be taken here in the common
186 6 | litrae and not three hundred. Be not dissatisfied then that~
187 6 | been assigned to~thee, so be content with the time.~
188 6 | another man's activity to be his own~good; and he who
189 6 | considers his own acts to be his own good.~ It is in
190 6 | about a thing, and not to be~disturbed in our soul; for
191 6 | much as it is possible, be in the speaker's mind.~
192 7 | all to my mind.- Let this be the state of thy affects,
193 7 | it better, unless there~be some reason why I ought
194 7 | another I can do, ought to be directed to~this only, to
195 7 | others have~long been dead.~ Be not ashamed to be helped;
196 7 | dead.~ Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy business
197 7 | come to them, if~it shall be necessary, having with thee
198 7 | and~according to reason.~ Be thou erect, or be made erect.~
199 7 | reason.~ Be thou erect, or be made erect.~ Just as it
200 7 | perception of this will~be more apparent to thee, if
201 7 | one does or says, I must be good, just as if the~gold,
202 7 | one does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.~
203 7 | a change? And~canst thou be nourished, unless the food
204 7 | anything else that is useful be accomplished without change?
205 7 | hardship for the vessel to be broken up, just as there
206 7 | extinguished that it cannot be again lighted up at all.
207 7 | order that the world~may be ever new.~ When a man has
208 7 | wilt neither wonder nor be angry.~For either thou thyself
209 7 | thinkest the same thing to be good that he~does or another
210 7 | not think such things to be good or evil,~thou wilt
211 7 | thou wilt more readily be well disposed to him who
212 7 | overvalue them, so as to be~disturbed if ever thou shouldst
213 7 | royal to do good and to be abused.~ It is a base thing
214 7 | thing for the countenance to be obedient and to~regulate
215 7 | and for the mind not~to be regulated and composed by
216 7 | us give joy.~ ~ Life must be reaped like the ripe ears
217 7 | if this is not a thing to be dismissed from the thoughts:
218 7 | thoughts: and there~must be no love of life: but as
219 7 | also the things which will be. For they will~certainly
220 7 | For they will~certainly be of like form, and it is
221 7 | complaining.~ ~ Another may be more expert in casting his
222 7 | neighbours.~ Where any work can be done conformably to the
223 7 | constitution, there no harm is to be~suspected.~ Everywhere and
224 7 | through the acts which must be done by thee. But every~
225 7 | circumscribe itself, and never to be overpowered either by the~
226 7 | does not permit itself to be~overpowered by the others.
227 7 | own.~ Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed
228 7 | them well, and they~will be a material for thee to work
229 7 | thyself, and~resolve to be a good man in every act
230 7 | dig.~ The body ought to be compact, and to show no
231 7 | propriety, that~ought to be required also in the whole
232 7 | all of these things~should be observed without affectation.~
233 7 | mind, for thus thou wilt be~more gentle towards all.~
234 7 | every pain let this thought be present, that there is no~
235 7 | possessed, and if he~was able to be content with being just
236 7 | for it is very possible to be a divine man and to be recognised~
237 7 | to be a divine man and to be recognised~as such by no
238 7 | opinion thou mayest~appear to be of a different kind; and
239 7 | social) faculty finds to be~neither intelligent nor
240 7 | social, it properly judges to be inferior to~itself.~ When
241 7 | according to nature. Do not then be tired of receiving what
242 8 | shalt seem to others,~and be content if thou shalt live
243 8 | This is the chief thing: Be not perturbed, for all things
244 8 | a little time thou~wilt be nobody and nowhere, like
245 8 | remembering that it is thy duty to be a good man, and~what man'
246 8 | thee most just, only let it be with a good disposition
247 8 | reason, and is subject to be impeded; but the nature~
248 8 | arrogance: thou hast leisure to be superior to~pleasure and
249 8 | pain: thou hast leisure to be superior to love of fame,~
250 8 | love of fame,~and not to be vexed at stupid and ungrateful
251 8 | that which is good must be something useful, and~the
252 8 | Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion
253 8 | that as it is a shame to be surprised if the fig-tree~
254 8 | produces figs, so it is to be surprised if the world produces
255 8 | helmsman it is a shame to be surprised, if a man has
256 8 | fault? For nothing should be done~without a purpose.~
257 8 | it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it
258 8 | it is burst? The same may~be said of a light also.~ Turn
259 8 | become~good to-morrow than to be good to-day.~ Am I doing
260 8 | compound, thyself, must either be dissolved, or~thy poor breath
261 8 | or~thy poor breath must be extinguished, or be removed
262 8 | must be extinguished, or be removed and placed~elsewhere.~
263 8 | proper work of a man to be benevolent to his own kind,
264 8 | power to let no badness be in this soul, nor desire
265 8 | every man, whoever he may be,~appropriately, not with
266 8 | necessity some one~must be the last. Again here consider
267 8 | as far as is possible, be content; and no one~is able
268 8 | other active power will be hindered.- Well, but by
269 8 | prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to~let it go.~ If
270 8 | put it in his~power not to be separated at all from the
271 8 | allowed him to return and to be united and to~resume his
272 8 | past bearing? For~thou wilt be ashamed to confess. In the
273 8 | tomb of Hadrian? That would be ridiculous.~Well, suppose
274 8 | sit there, would the dead be conscious of it?~And if
275 8 | were conscious, would they be pleased? And if they~were
276 8 | But I am not reason.- Be it so. Let then the~reason
277 8 | the men of after time~will be exactly such as these whom
278 8 | reason why my soul should be unhappy and worse than it
279 8 | brings nothing which may not be borne by thee.~ If thou
280 8 | thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not~
281 8 | obstacle is in the~way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause
282 8 | while to live if this~cannot be done.- Take thy departure
283 8 | obstinacy.~What then will it be when it forms a judgement
284 8 | refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who
285 8 | the world? For thou wilt be ridiculed by a man who~is
286 8 | nature, as thou wouldst be ridiculed by a carpenter~
287 8 | decay and to grow old and to be~useless she changes into
288 8 | Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation
289 8 | thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul~inward contention
290 8 | external effusion, nor in life be so busy as~to have no leisure.~
291 8 | wash them out, and will not be at all~polluted. How then
292 8 | are?~ Dost thou wish to be praised by a man who curses
293 8 | thy intelligence also now be in harmony with~the intelligence
294 8 | who has it in his power to be released from it, as~soon
295 8 | neighbour's wickedness~would be my harm, which God has not
296 8 | another.~ The sun appears to be poured down, and in all
297 8 | off. Such then ought to~be the out-pouring and diffusion
298 8 | and it should~in no way be an effusion, but an extension,
299 8 | nor yet fall down, but be fixed and enlighten that
300 8 | of~sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living
301 9 | pain will sometimes also~be afraid of some of the things
302 9 | to follow nature should be of the~same mind with it,
303 9 | the things which~were to be, and having determined powers
304 9 | like successions.~ It would be a man's happiest lot to
305 9 | Do not despise death, but be well content with it, since
306 9 | wills. For such as it is to be~young and to grow old, and
307 9 | hairs, and to beget, and to be~pregnant and to bring forth,
308 9 | of a reflecting man, to be~neither careless nor impatient
309 9 | out of thy wife's womb,~so be ready for the time when
310 9 | reach thy heart, thou wilt be made best reconciled to
311 9 | which thou art going to be removed, and the~morals
312 9 | thy soul will no longer be mingled. For it~is no way
313 9 | For it~is no way right to be offended with men, but it
314 9 | that thy~departure will be not from men who have the
315 9 | the only thing, if there be any, which could draw~us
316 9 | and attach us to life, to be permitted to live~with those
317 9 | fire, but it is so ready to be kindled together~with all
318 9 | ready to mingle with and to be fused with that which is
319 9 | nor yet as one who would be~pitied or admired: but direct
320 9 | thy~whole life a thing to be afraid of.~ Hasten to examine
321 9 | so let~every act of thine be a component part of social
322 9 | and does not allow it to be one, and~it is of the nature
323 9 | thee. However thou must be well disposed towards them,~
324 9 | effect, and if this is so, be thou~content with that which
325 9 | rules, do not thou~also be governed by it.~ Soon will
326 9 | expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest
327 9 | consider such an event to be no small matter. For who
328 9 | anything else.~ Let there be freedom from perturbations
329 9 | external cause; and let there be justice in the~things done
330 9 | cause, that is, let there be~movement and action terminating
331 9 | the extremest old age will be brought into the same~condition
332 9 | done in like form, and will be~such to time without end.
333 9 | and all things always will be bad, and that no power has~
334 9 | world~has been condemned to be found in never ceasing evil?~
335 9 | prays thus: How shall I be able~to lie with that woman?
336 9 | prays thus: How shall I be released from this?~Another
337 9 | How shall I not desire to be released? Another thus:~
338 9 | Thou thus: How shall I not be~afraid to lose him? In fine,
339 9 | in the poor flesh, shall be~free from perturbations
340 9 | schools of philosophy; but to be intent only on~that which
341 9 | shameless men should not be in~the world? It is not
342 9 | men who must~of necessity be in the world. Let the same
343 9 | the same considerations be present~to thy mind in the
344 9 | by which thy mind could be made worse; but that~which
345 9 | nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for~it? Just as if
346 10| thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one
347 10| disposition? Wilt thou never~be full and without a want
348 10| in harmony? But wilt thou be~satisfied with thy present
349 10| well for thee, and~will be well whatever shall please
350 10| things? Wilt thou never be such that thou~shalt so
351 10| with them at all, nor to be condemned by them?~ Observe
352 10| living being, shall not be made worse by it.~ And next
353 10| rational animal, shall not be made~worse by it. But the
354 10| a system,~let this first be established, that I am a
355 10| as I am a part, I shall be discontented with none of~
356 10| besides, that it cannot be compelled~even by any external
357 10| of such a whole, I shall be~content with everything
358 10| necessity perish; but let this~be understood in this sense,
359 10| natural, even then it would be ridiculous~to affirm at
360 10| and at the same time to be surprised or~vexed as if
361 10| names, without desiring~to be called by these names by
362 10| names by others, thou wilt be another person and~wilt
363 10| life. For to continue to be such as thou hast~hitherto
364 10| hast~hitherto been, and to be tom in pieces and defiled
365 10| and gore, still intreat to be kept to the~following day,
366 10| following day, though they will be exposed in the same state
367 10| and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish~all
368 10| all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and
369 10| to~inquire what ought to be done? And if thou seest
370 10| to that~which appears to be just. For it is best to
371 10| dost fail, let thy failure be in attempting this. He who~
372 10| that a good man ought to~be, but be such.~ Constantly
373 10| good man ought to~be, but be such.~ Constantly contemplate
374 10| what a~condition they will be.~ That is for the good of
375 10| make whatever is about to be. I say then to the~universe,
376 10| that loves (is wont) to be produced"?~ Either thou
377 10| things there is~nothing. Be of good cheer, then.~ Let
378 10| then.~ Let this always be plain to thee, that this
379 10| wherever thou choosest to be.~For thou wilt find just
380 10| has been or is~or shall be of the things which are
381 10| consider that they will be the same again. And~place
382 10| anything or discontented to be~like a pig which is sacrificed
383 10| manner. Then let this thought be in thy~mind, Where then
384 10| thrown~into it.~ Let it not be in any man's power to say
385 10| are not good; but let him be a liar~whoever shall think
386 10| longer,~unless thou shalt be such. For neither does reason
387 10| material (our life) can be done or~said in the way
388 10| reason. For whatever this may~be, it is in thy power to do
389 10| enjoy~pleasure, such shall be to thee, in the matter which
390 10| with~which the reason will be carried through all things,
391 10| remind him that he~should be free from grief and fear.
392 10| things as if they would be eternal. A little time,
393 10| hearing and smelling ought to be ready to perceive all~that
394 10| to perceive all~that can be heard and smelled. And the
395 10| healthy stomach ought to be~with respect to all food
396 10| healthy understanding~ought to be prepared for everything
397 10| fortunate that there shall not be by him when~he is dying
398 10| wise man, will there not be at last some one to~say
399 10| thy departure from men to be, for~nature united thee
400 11| wherever the limit of life may be fixed. Not as in a dance
401 11| part and wherever it may be~stopped, it makes what has
402 11| have been and~all that will be. This too is a property
403 11| mastered by~this; for thou wilt be prevented by shame from
404 11| if at any moment it must be~separated from the body,
405 11| body, and ready either to be extinguished or~dispersed
406 11| reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and
407 11| good.~ What is thy art? To be good. And how is this accomplished
408 11| the stage, you should not be troubled with that which~
409 11| see that these things must be~accomplished thus, and that
410 11| which thou now~happenest to be.~ A branch cut off from
411 11| branch must of necessity be cut~off from the whole tree
412 11| which is near to us, and be to come a part which helps
413 11| which detaches itself to be brought to~unity and to
414 11| brought to~unity and to be restored to its former condition.
415 11| to right reason, will not be able to turn thee aside
416 11| feelings towards them, but be on thy guard equally in~
417 11| this also is a weakness, to be vexed at~them, as well as
418 11| vexed at~them, as well as to be diverted from thy course
419 11| foundation: for justice will not be observed, if we~either care
420 11| thy~judgement about them be at rest, and they will remain
421 11| quiet, and~thou wilt not be seen either pursuing or
422 11| will look to this, that I be not discovered doing or
423 11| him look to~it. But I will be mild and benevolent towards
424 11| interior parts~ought to be such, and a man ought to
425 11| such, and a man ought to be seen by the gods neither~
426 11| the common advantage may be done in some way?~ Men despise
427 11| acts. The~voice ought to be plainly written on the forehead.
428 11| honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells~
429 11| power is in the soul, if it be~indifferent to things which
430 11| indifferent. And it will be~indifferent, if it looks
431 11| such attention will only be for a~short time, and then
432 11| time, and then life will be at an end. Besides, what
433 11| rejoice in them, and they will be easy to thee: but if~contrary
434 11| kind of a thing it will be when it~has changed, and
435 11| another respect, I was made to be set over them, as a ram
436 11| they do, we ought not to be~displeased; but if they
437 11| disposition is invincible, if it be~genuine, and not an affected
438 11| thee, if thou continuest to be of a kind~disposition towards
439 11| else: I shall certainly not be~injured, but thou art injuring
440 11| are formed by~nature to be gregarious. And thou must
441 11| Muses, and begin at last to be a man while thou~livest.
442 11| harm. And let this truth be~present to thee in the excitement
443 11| excitement of anger, that to be moved by~passion is not
444 11| against~which thou shouldst be constantly on thy guard,
445 11| intelligent part only should be disobedient and~discontented
446 11| same object in life, cannot be one~and the same all through
447 11| what this object ought to be. For as~there is not the
448 11| considered by the majority to be good, but only about~some
449 11| ourselves an object which~shall be of a common kind (social)
450 11| alike,~and thus will always be the same.~ Think of the
451 11| receive a favour and then be unable to return it.~ In
452 11| the heavens that we~may be reminded of those bodies
453 11| perform their work, and also be reminded of~their purity
454 11| nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down~rules for
455 11| to his movements he~must be careful that they be made
456 11| must be careful that they be made with regard to circumstances,
457 11| circumstances, that~they be consistent with social interests,
458 12| piety, that thou mayest be content~with the lot which
459 12| then, whatever the time may~be when thou shalt be near
460 12| time may~be when thou shalt be near to thy departure, neglecting
461 12| thee, and if thou shalt be afraid not because thou
462 12| to nature- then thou wilt be a man worthy of the universe~
463 12| and thou wilt cease to be a stranger in thy~native
464 12| something unexpected, and to be dependent on this or that.~
465 12| present- then thou wilt be able to pass that portion
466 12| of ourselves.~ How can it be that the gods after having
467 12| exist again, but should be completely~extinguished?~
468 12| extinguished?~ But if this is so, be assured that if it ought
469 12| were just, it~would also be possible; and if it were
470 12| if in fact it is not~so, be thou convinced that it ought
471 12| ordering of the universe to be~neglected unjustly and irrationally.~
472 12| body and soul a man should be~when he is overtaken by
473 12| thy principles thou must be like the~pancratiast, not
474 12| Providence which allows itself to be~propitiated, make thyself
475 12| confusion without governor, be content that in such a~tempest
476 12| and~justice and temperance be extinguished before thy
477 12| whatever else must of necessity be. For what must a man~do
478 12| that before long thou wilt be nobody and nowhere, nor~
479 12| by nature to change~and be turned and to perish in
480 12| activity whatever it may be, when it has ceased at its~
481 12| if thou~shouldst suddenly be raised up above the earth,
482 12| as often as thou shouldst be raised up, thou wouldst
483 12| duration. Are these~things to be proud of?~ Cast away opinion:
484 12| even~a tale. And let there be present to thy mind also
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