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1 1 | either of the Parmularius~or the Scutarius at the gladiators'
2 1 | practises much discipline, or does~benevolent acts in
3 1 | have~offended me by words, or done me wrong, to be easily
4 1 | being either humbled by~them or letting them pass unnoticed.~
5 1 | and he never showed~anger or any other passion, but was
6 1 | who uttered any barbarous or~solecistic or strange-sounding
7 1 | barbarous or~solecistic or strange-sounding expression;
8 1 | and in~the way of answer or giving confirmation, or
9 1 | or giving confirmation, or joining in an inquiry~about
10 1 | itself, not about the word, or by some other fit~suggestion.~
11 1 | necessity to~say to any one, or to write in a letter, that
12 1 | conjecture what he wished or did~not wish, but it was
13 1 | was he ever~passionate or suspicious. He was accustomed
14 1 | was despised by Maximus, or ever~venture to think himself
15 1 | obligation to sup with him or to~attend him of necessity
16 1 | did he court men by gifts or by trying to~please them,
17 1 | by trying to~please them, or by flattering the populace;
18 1 | never any mean thoughts or action, nor~love of novelty.
19 1 | he was~either a sophist or a home-bred flippant slave
20 1 | home-bred flippant slave or a pedant; but~every one
21 1 | need of~the physician's art or of medicine or external
22 1 | physician's art or of medicine or external applications. He
23 1 | such as that of eloquence or knowledge of the~law or
24 1 | or knowledge of the~law or of morals, or of anything
25 1 | of the~law or of morals, or of anything else; and he
26 1 | without wanting either guards or~embroidered dresses, or
27 1 | or~embroidered dresses, or torches and statues, and
28 1 | either~meaner in thought, or more remiss in action, with
29 1 | touched~either Benedicta or Theodotus, and that, after
30 1 | help any~man in his need, or on any other occasion, I
31 1 | on writers of histories, or in the resolution of syllogisms,
32 1 | resolution of syllogisms, or~occupy myself about the
33 2 | not only of the same blood or seed,~but that it participates
34 2 | dissatisfied~with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.~
35 2 | not separated from nature or without an interweaving~
36 2 | indeed they do not~exist, or if they have no concern
37 2 | universe devoid of gods or devoid of Providence? But~
38 2 | the power to guard against or correct~these things, is
39 2 | either through want of power or want of skill, that good~
40 2 | with the~bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are
41 2 | pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury~
42 2 | cannot lose either the past or the future: for~what a man
43 2 | things during a~hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite
44 2 | hundred years or two hundred, or an infinite time; and the
45 2 | turns away from any man, or even moves~towards him with
46 2 | overpowered by pleasure or by pain. Fourthly, when~
47 2 | it plays a part, and does or says anything insincerely
48 2 | need of another man's doing or not doing anything; and~
49 3 | immediately answer, This or That; so~that from thy words
50 3 | thoughts about pleasure or sensual enjoyments at~all,
51 3 | all, nor has any rivalry or envy and suspicion, or anything
52 3 | rivalry or envy and suspicion, or anything else for~which
53 3 | imagining what another says,~or does, or thinks. For it
54 3 | what another says,~or does, or thinks. For it is only what
55 3 | either a man of many~words, or busy about too many things.
56 3 | as~praise from the many, or power, or enjoyment of pleasure,
57 3 | from the many, or power, or enjoyment of pleasure, should~
58 3 | rationally and politically or~practically good. All these
59 3 | not need either solitude or much~company; and, what
60 3 | without either~pursuing or flying from death; but whether
61 3 | but whether for a longer or a shorter~time he shall
62 3 | his life is~either past or it is uncertain. Short then
63 3 | for thyself a definition or description of the thing
64 4 | nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from~trouble
65 4 | either there is providence or atoms, fortuitous concurrence
66 4 | fortuitous concurrence of things;~or remember the arguments by
67 4 | breath, whether moving gently or~violently, when it has once
68 4 | above all do not distract or strain thyself, but be~free,
69 4 | and our capacity for law; or whence do they come?~For
70 4 | him either from without or from~within.~ The nature
71 4 | has who does thee wrong,~or such as he wishes thee to
72 4 | persuasion, as of what is just or of common advantage, and
73 4 | because it appears pleasant or brings reputation.~ Hast
74 4 | what his~neighbour says or does or thinks, but only
75 4 | his~neighbour says or does or thinks, but only to what
76 4 | it may be just and pure; or as Agathon says, look not
77 4 | not more than benevolence or modesty. Which of these
78 4 | beautiful because it is praised, or spoiled by being blamed?
79 4 | was, if it is not~praised? Or gold, ivory, purple, a lyre,
80 4 | transformations into the aerial or~the fiery element.~ What
81 4 | faculty of comprehension or understanding.~ Everything
82 4 | a well-arranged universe or a chaos huddled together,~
83 4 | are~cast into the earth or into a womb: but this is
84 4 | that nothing is either bad or~good which can happen equally
85 4 | whatever else delights fools or vexes~them.~ In the series
86 4 | thou shalt die to-morrow, or certainly~on the day after
87 4 | it was~on the third day or on the morrow, unless thou
88 4 | endless discourses on death or~immortality; how many heroes
89 4 | to-morrow will be a mummy or~ashes. Pass then through
90 4 | Fabius,~Julianus, Lepidus, or any one else like them,
91 5 | brought into the world? Or have I been made for this,
92 5 | and not at all~for action or exertion? Dost thou not
93 5 | values the turning art, or the dancer~the dancing art,
94 5 | dancer~the dancing art, or the lover of money values
95 5 | money values his money, or the~vainglorious man his
96 5 | impression which is~troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately
97 5 | thing is good to be done or~said, do not consider it
98 5 | voluntarily below the mark? Or art thou compelled through
99 5 | ought not to pray at all, or we ought to pray in this
100 5 | this man horse-exercise, or bathing in cold water or~
101 5 | or bathing in cold water or~going without shoes; so
102 5 | prescribed to this man disease or~mutilation or loss or anything
103 5 | man disease or~mutilation or loss or anything else of
104 5 | disease or~mutilation or loss or anything else of the kind.
105 5 | That which happens to (or, suits) every man is fixed
106 5 | squared stones in walls or the pyramids, that they
107 5 | continuity either of the parts or of the causes.~And thou
108 5 | a bit of sponge and egg, or as another applies a plaster,
109 5 | another applies a plaster, or~drenching with water. For
110 5 | possession of a filthy wretch or a whore or a robber.~Then
111 5 | filthy wretch or a whore or a robber.~Then turn to the
112 5 | worth being highly prized~or even an object of serious
113 5 | I~now? That of a child, or of a young man, or of a
114 5 | child, or of a young man, or of a feeble woman, or of
115 5 | man, or of a feeble woman, or of a~tyrant, or of a domestic
116 5 | feeble woman, or of a~tyrant, or of a domestic animal, or
117 5 | or of a domestic animal, or of a wild beast?~ What kind
118 5 | acts~are named catorthoseis or right acts, which word signifies
119 5 | man deprives~himself of, or of other things like them,
120 5 | other things like them, or even when he is~deprived
121 5 | that they have happened or because he would show a
122 5 | soul, nor can they turn or move the soul:~but the soul
123 5 | indifferent, no less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now~
124 5 | less than the sun or wind or a wild beast. Now~it is
125 5 | puffed up with such things or plagued about them and~makes
126 5 | flesh, whether of pleasure or of pain; and let it~not
127 5 | opinion that it is either good or bad.~ Live with the gods.
128 5 | has wronged a man in deed or word.~ ~And call to recollection
129 5 | soon, thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a~
130 5 | skeleton, and either a~name or not even a name; but name
131 5 | whether it is extinction or~removal to another state?
132 6 | thee whether thou art cold or warm,~if thou art doing
133 6 | whether thou art drowsy or satisfied~with sleep; and
134 6 | and whether ill-spoken of or praised; and whether dying
135 6 | praised; and whether dying or~doing something else. For
136 6 | indeed all substance is one, or they will be dispersed.~
137 6 | externally comprehends this, or a nature which is comprehended~
138 6 | comprehended~within this nature, or a nature external and independent
139 6 | things, and a dispersion; or it is unity and order and
140 6 | the dead~body of a bird or of a pig; and again, that
141 6 | held together by~cohesion or natural organization, such
142 6 | soul skilled in some art, or expert in some~other way,
143 6 | expert in some~other way, or simply rational so far as
144 6 | whom they have never seen or ever~will see, this they
145 6 | show me that I do not think or~act right, I will gladly
146 6 | either~things without life, or things without reason, or
147 6 | or things without reason, or things that have~rambled
148 6 | principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed
149 6 | wonder if many more things,~or rather all things which
150 6 | without being~disturbed or showing anger towards those
151 6 | either directly proceeding or by way of sequence. And~
152 6 | suppose to be good for thee or evil, it must of necessity
153 6 | a bad thing befall thee or the loss of such a good
154 6 | cause of~the misfortune or the loss, or those who are
155 6 | misfortune or the loss, or those who are suspected
156 6 | in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason~
157 6 | for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude
158 6 | do the work of the rain, or Aesculapius~the work of
159 6 | result to them from this or to the whole, which is the
160 6 | it is wicked to~believe, or if we do believe it, let
161 6 | sailors abused the helmsman or the sick the doctor, would
162 6 | listen to anybody else; or how could the helmsman secure
163 6 | safety of~those in the ship or the doctor the health of
164 6 | the bile in the jaundiced or the poison in him who~is
165 7 | understanding sufficient for this or not? If it is sufficient,~
166 7 | why I ought not to do so; or I do it as well as I~can,
167 7 | whatsoever~either by myself or with another I can do, ought
168 7 | reason.~ Be thou erect, or be made erect.~ Just as
169 7 | Whatever any one does or says, I must be good, just
170 7 | good, just as if the~gold, or the emerald, or the purple
171 7 | the~gold, or the emerald, or the purple were always saying
172 7 | this,~Whatever any one does or says, I must be emerald
173 7 | does not~frighten itself or cause itself pain. But if
174 7 | any one else can frighten~or pain it, let him do so.
175 7 | happiness) is a good daemon, or a good thing. What~then
176 7 | What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal
177 7 | constitution of man does not allow, or in the way which it does
178 7 | which it does not~allow, or what it does not allow now.~
179 7 | what~opinion about good or evil he has done wrong.
180 7 | to be good that he~does or another thing of the same
181 7 | think such things to be good or evil,~thou wilt more readily
182 7 | what happens either to thee or~to another. Divide and distribute
183 7 | Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms,~
184 7 | a resolution into atoms,~or annihilation, it is either
185 7 | it is either extinction or change.~ About pain: The
186 7 | compute the hazard of life or death,~and should not rather
187 7 | he is doing what is just or unjust, and the works of
188 7 | and the works of a good or a bad~man.~ For thus it
189 7 | the best place for him, or has been placed by a~commander,
190 7 | reckoning, either death or anything~else, before the
191 7 | as to a man~living such or such a time, at least one
192 7 | involution of the atoms, or~a similar dispersion of
193 7 | the~motion of the senses or of the appetites, for both
194 7 | irregularity either~in motion or attitude. For what the mind
195 7 | intelligence is rational or so far as it is social.
196 7 | art,~which belongs to man or God. For everything which
197 7 | relationship either to God or man, and is neither new
198 7 | of having done a good act or to obtain a return?~ No
199 7 | comes by way of consequence or continuity;~or even the
200 7 | consequence or continuity;~or even the chief things towards
201 8 | lived the whole of thy~life, or at least thy life from thy
202 8 | assents to nothing false or uncertain, and when it directs
203 8 | which has~not perception or reason, and is subject to
204 8 | Thou hast not leisure or ability to read. But thou
205 8 | read. But thou hast leisure or~ability to check arrogance:
206 8 | fault with the court life or~with thy own.~ Repentance
207 8 | what its causal nature (or form)?~And what is it doing
208 8 | will~seem nothing wonderful or strange to me, if he does
209 8 | surprised, if a man has a fever, or if~the wind is unfavourable.~
210 8 | blame? The atoms (chance) or~the gods? Both are foolish.
211 8 | the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to~come down,
212 8 | harm for it to~come down, or even to have fallen? And
213 8 | while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst?
214 8 | whether it is an~opinion or an act or a word.~ Thou
215 8 | is an~opinion or an act or a word.~ Thou sufferest
216 8 | sharp-witted men, either seers or men inflated with~pride,
217 8 | must either be dissolved, or~thy poor breath must be
218 8 | breath must be extinguished, or be removed and placed~elsewhere.~
219 8 | say what it~thinks of it- or to the soul; but it is in
220 8 | speaking.~ Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance;
221 8 | ever see a hand cut off, or a foot, or a head, lying~
222 8 | hand cut off, or a foot, or a head, lying~anywhere apart
223 8 | separates himself from others, or does anything unsocial.
224 8 | even~this.~ Does Panthea or Pergamus now sit by the
225 8 | of Verus? Does Chaurias~or Diotimus sit by the tomb
226 8 | then to thyself. Does pain or sensuous pleasure~affect
227 8 | absolutely (unconditionally, or without any reservation),~
228 8 | away either from any man~or from any of the things which
229 8 | of after~time utter this or that sound, or have this
230 8 | utter this or that sound, or have this or that opinion
231 8 | that sound, or have this or that opinion about~thee?~
232 8 | nothing happens to thee. Or rather add something,~like
233 8 | should cast clay into it or filth, it will~speedily
234 8 | think of him who avoids or seeks the~praise of those
235 8 | not either where they are~or who they are?~ Dost thou
236 8 | fixed and does not glide or fall off. Such then ought
237 8 | it should make no~violent or impetuous collision with
238 8 | fears the loss of sensation or a different~kind of sensation.
239 8 | another. Teach them then or bear~with them.~ In one
240 9 | pain, then,~and pleasure, or death and life, or honour
241 9 | pleasure, or death and life, or honour and dishonour, which
242 9 | the same kind with~itself, or moves even more. For so
243 9 | it is in thy power also; or say, who hinders~thee?~
244 9 | one who would be~pitied or admired: but direct thy
245 9 | got out of all trouble, or rather I have cast out~all
246 9 | he~has acted ignorantly or with knowledge, and that
247 9 | reference either immediately or remotely to a social~end,
248 9 | When another blames thee or hates thee, or when men
249 9 | blames thee or hates thee, or when men say about thee~
250 9 | these men may have this or that~opinion about thee.
251 9 | result of its activity; or it puts~itself in motion
252 9 | of sequence in~a manner; or indivisible elements are
253 9 | they do harm by their blame or good by their praise,~what
254 9 | Water, dust, bones, filth: or again, marble rocks, the~
255 9 | of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at
256 9 | things for a hundred years or three.~ If any man has done
257 9 | the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms,~and
258 9 | Either the gods have no power or they have power. If, then,
259 9 | things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the~
260 9 | things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything,
261 9 | things should not happen or happen? for~certainly if
262 9 | either with an ignorant man or with one unacquainted with
263 9 | mind.~And what harm is done or what is there strange, if
264 9 | blamest a man as faithless~or ungrateful, turn to thyself.
265 9 | would~keep his promise, or when conferring thy kindness
266 9 | a recompense for seeing, or the feet~for walking. For
267 9 | done anything benevolent or in any other~way conducive
268 10| anything, either animate or inanimate, for the~enjoyment
269 10| shalt~have longer enjoyment, or place, or pleasant climate,
270 10| longer enjoyment, or place, or pleasant climate, or society
271 10| place, or pleasant climate, or society of~men with whom
272 10| formed by nature to bear it, or as thou art not formed by
273 10| it is either thy interest or thy duty to do this.~ If
274 10| not able, blame thyself, or blame not even thyself.~
275 10| is a concourse of atoms, or nature is a system,~let
276 10| necessity~fall into evil, or have such results happened
277 10| same time to be surprised or~vexed as if something were
278 10| everything has been compounded, or a change from the solid
279 10| periods~is consumed by fire or renewed by eternal changes.
280 10| part above the~pleasurable or painful sensations of the
281 10| thou shalt maintain them, or even~depart at once from
282 10| to what any man shall say or think about~him or do against
283 10| shall say or think about~him or do against him, he never
284 10| in bestowing their praise or blame on others, are such
285 10| whether a man lives there or~here, if he lives everywhere
286 10| as it were putrefaction or~dispersion, or that everything
287 10| putrefaction or~dispersion, or that everything is so constituted
288 10| imperious and arrogant, or angry and scolding from
289 10| this too said, that~"this or that loves (is wont) to
290 10| accustomed thyself to it,~or thou art going away, and
291 10| and this was thy own will; or thou art dying~and hast
292 10| things on top of~a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever
293 10| mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou choosest to
294 10| And he also who is grieved~or angry or afraid, is dissatisfied
295 10| who is grieved~or angry or afraid, is dissatisfied
296 10| because something has been or is~or shall be of the things
297 10| something has been or is~or shall be of the things which
298 10| is fit. He then~who fears or is grieved or is angry is
299 10| who fears or is grieved or is angry is a runaway.~
300 10| learned from thy experience or from older~history; for
301 10| who is grieved at anything or discontented to be~like
302 10| that money is a good thing, or pleasure, or a bit of~reputation,
303 10| good thing, or pleasure, or a bit of~reputation, and
304 10| for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take~
305 10| think of either Eutyches~or Hymen, and when thou hast
306 10| Euphrates, think of Eutychion or~Silvanus, and when thou
307 10| Xenophon think of Crito or Severus, and when~thou hast
308 10| are those men? Nowhere, or nobody knows where. For~
309 10| that thou~art not simple or that thou are not good;
310 10| material (our life) can be done or~said in the way most conformable
311 10| is in thy power to do it or to say it, and do not make~
312 10| which is governed by nature or an~irrational soul, for
313 10| only which is a dead thing; or, except through opinion
314 10| does not harm either state or~citizen.~ To him who is
315 10| and bestow their praise, or on~the contrary curse, or
316 10| or on~the contrary curse, or secretly blame and sneer;
317 10| seeks for green things, or teeth which seek for~soft
318 11| either to be extinguished or~dispersed or continue to
319 11| extinguished or~dispersed or continue to exist; but so
320 11| those who try to hinder~or otherwise trouble thee.
321 11| things (things indifferent), or are easily~deceived and
322 11| be seen either pursuing or avoiding.~ The spherical
323 11| be not discovered doing or saying~anything deserving
324 11| smell whether he choose or not. But the affectation
325 11| as a ram over the~flock or a bull over the herd. But
326 11| either through cowardice, or concern about reputation,
327 11| concern about reputation, or some such~mean motive, thou
328 11| whether men are~doing wrong or not, for many things are
329 11| when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life~
330 11| things which in some way~or other are considered by
331 11| expresses any work of nature; or if it is so, it is also
332 11| man must discover an art (or rules) with~respect to giving
333 11| matter, but about~being mad or not.~ Socrates used to say,
334 11| want? Souls of rational men or~irrational?- Souls of rational
335 11| what rational men? Sound or~unsound?- Sound.- Why then
336 12| to be dependent on this or that.~ God sees the minds (
337 12| understanding, whatever others do or say,~and whatever thou hast
338 12| whatever thou hast done or said thyself, and whatever
339 12| body which envelops thee or in the breath (life), which
340 12| of others. If then a god or a wise~teacher should present
341 12| wrong either voluntarily or~involuntarily, nor men,
342 12| necessity and invincible order, or a kind~Providence, or a
343 12| order, or a kind~Providence, or a confusion without a purpose
344 12| in my mind? Is it fear, or~suspicion, or desire, or
345 12| Is it fear, or~suspicion, or desire, or anything of the
346 12| or~suspicion, or desire, or anything of the kind?~ First,
347 12| nothing either inconsiderately or otherwise than~as justice
348 12| happens either by chance or~according to Providence,
349 12| community, not of a little blood~or seed, but of intelligence.
350 12| conspicuous by the~greatest fame or misfortunes or enmities
351 12| greatest fame or misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of
352 12| misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of any kind: then~
353 12| Smoke and ash and a tale, or not even~a tale. And let
354 12| Capreae and~Velius Rufus (or Rufus at Velia); and in
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