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1 1 | want little, and to work with my own~hands, and not to
2 1 | hands, and not to meddle with other people's affairs,
3 1 | to have become~intimate with philosophy; and to have
4 1 | and~to write my letters with simplicity, like the letter
5 1 | Sinuessa to my mother; and with respect to those who have~
6 1 | and not to be satisfied with a~superficial understanding
7 1 | him for being~acquainted with the discourses of Epictetus,
8 1 | all, so that intercourse with him was~more agreeable than
9 1 | by those who associated with him: and he had the~faculty
10 1 | by our relation~to those with whom we live, by alleging
11 1 | all, a polity administered with regard~to equal rights and
12 1 | concealment of his opinions with respect to those whom he
13 1 | from all obligation to sup with him or to~attend him of
14 1 | through being satisfied with appearances~which first
15 1 | was neither superstitious with~respect to the gods, nor
16 1 | was not longer~brought up with my grandfather's concubine,
17 1 | or more remiss in action, with respect to the~things which
18 1 | without putting them off with hope of my doing it~some
19 1 | was often out of humour~with Rusticus, I never did anything
20 1 | the~last years of her life with me; that, whenever I wished
21 2 | to thyself, I shall meet with the~busy-body, the ungrateful,
22 2 | ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor~hate him,
23 2 | longer either be dissatisfied~with thy present lot, or shrink
24 2 | interweaving~and involution with the things which are ordered
25 2 | do what thou~hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,
26 2 | self-love, and discontent with the portion~which has been
27 2 | would make in accordance with the common notions of mankind-
28 2 | to turn away from reason~with a certain pain and unconscious
29 2 | offence which is~committed with pleasure is more blameable
30 2 | that which is committed~with pain; and on the whole the
31 2 | particularly those which attract with the~bait of pleasure or
32 2 | thoughtlessness, and~dissatisfaction with what comes from gods and
33 2 | or even moves~towards him with the intention of injuring,
34 2 | smallest things~be done with reference to an end; and
35 2 | purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy, not~feeling the
36 2 | finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being
37 3 | feeling and deeper insight with respect to the things~which
38 3 | gaping jaws of wild beasts with no less pleasure than those
39 3 | will be able to look~on with chaste eyes; and many such
40 3 | has become truly familiar~with nature and her works.~ Hippocrates
41 3 | the universe, was filled with water internally and~died
42 3 | and~died smeared all over with mud. And lice destroyed
43 3 | thou now in thy thoughts? With~perfect openness thou mightest,
44 3 | by any passion, dyed deep with justice,~accepting with
45 3 | with justice,~accepting with all his soul everything
46 3 | each man is carried along~with him and carries him along
47 3 | him and carries him along with it. And he remembers also
48 3 | and what they are, and with what men they live an impure~
49 3 | they are not even satisfied with themselves.~ Labour not
50 3 | without due consideration, nor with distraction; nor let studied~
51 3 | better~than this, turn to it with all thy soul, and enjoy
52 3 | should~come into competition with that which is rationally
53 3 | anything else which can be done with decency and~order; taking
54 3 | any~opinion inconsistent with nature and the constitution
55 3 | what value everything has with reference to the~whole,
56 3 | reference to the~whole, and what with reference to man, who is
57 3 | what virtue I~have need of with respect to it, such as gentleness,
58 3 | natural law of fellowship with~benevolence and justice.
59 3 | fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present~activity according
60 3 | according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word~
61 3 | everything, even the smallest, with a recollection of the bond~
62 3 | to be pleased and content with what happens, and with~the
63 3 | content with what happens, and with~the thread which is spun
64 3 | life, he is neither angry with any of them,~nor does he
65 4 | to nature, is so~affected with respect to the events which
66 4 | thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom
67 4 | free from all discontent with the things to~which thou
68 4 | which thou returnest. For with what art thou discontented?
69 4 | what art thou discontented? With the~badness of men? Recall
70 4 | perhaps thou art dissatisfied with that which is assigned to
71 4 | that the mind mingles not with the breath, whether moving
72 4 | be so. I do not say~only with respect to the continuity
73 4 | the series of things, but~with respect to what is just,
74 4 | doest, do it in conjunction with this, the being~good, and
75 4 | Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious
76 4 | of Zeus?~ Occupy thyself with few things, says the philosopher,
77 4 | of him who~is satisfied with his portion out of the whole,
78 4 | the whole, and satisfied with his~own just acts and benevolent
79 4 | through being~displeased with the things which happen,
80 4 | learned, and be~content with it; and pass through the
81 4 | has~intrusted to the gods with his whole soul all that
82 4 | do what was in~accordance with their proper constitution,
83 4 | to~this and to be content with it. And herein it is necessary
84 4 | poor body, is burnt, filled with matter and~rottenness, nevertheless
85 4 | and how all~things act with one movement; and how all
86 4 | leads, and that men quarrel with that with~which they are
87 4 | that men quarrel with that with~which they are most constantly
88 4 | things which daily meet with seem to~them strange: and
89 4 | astrologers~after predicting with great pretensions the deaths
90 4 | their power over men's lives with terrible~insolence as if
91 4 | and death; and consider with how~much trouble, and in
92 4 | trouble, and in company with what sort of people and
93 4 | everything in conformity with the soundest~reason. For
94 5 | years I have been supplied~with food and drink; which bears
95 5 | to pleasure, contentment with thy portion and with~few
96 5 | contentment with thy portion and with~few things, benevolence,
97 5 | flatter, and to find fault with thy poor body, and to try
98 5 | truth thou canst be charged with being rather~slow and dull
99 5 | it is right to be content with~that which happens to thee;
100 5 | most ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the~other,
101 5 | thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and~love this
102 5 | a plaster, or~drenching with water. For thus thou wilt
103 5 | morals of those who live with thee, and it is hardly~possible
104 5 | should not be in harmony with what is~really good. But
105 5 | the thoughts. Dye it then with~a continuous series of such
106 5 | thou must not be angry with him who does harm to the
107 5 | Often think of the rapidity with which things pass by and
108 5 | a fool who is puffed up with such things or plagued about
109 5 | pain; and let it~not unite with them, but let it circumscribe
110 5 | either good or bad.~ Live with the gods. And he does live
111 5 | the gods. And he does live with the gods who constantly~
112 5 | his own soul is satisfied with that which is assigned~to
113 5 | reason.~ Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink?
114 5 | armpits stink? Art thou angry with him~whose mouth smells foul?
115 5 | brought together into concord with one another the~things which
116 6 | art drowsy or satisfied~with sleep; and whether ill-spoken
117 6 | through whom what thou meetest with in the court~appears to
118 6 | robe some sheep's wool dyed with~the blood of a shell-fish:
119 6 | co-operates to this end with those~who are of the same
120 6 | man should fall~in love with one of the sparrows which
121 6 | moment, just the same is it with the~whole respiratory power,
122 6 | of separating and~parting with the useless part of our
123 6 | being~valued? To be received with clapping of hands? No. Neither
124 6 | he must often find fault~with the gods. But to reverence
125 6 | mind will make thee~content with thyself, and in harmony
126 6 | thyself, and in harmony with society, and in agreement~
127 6 | society, and in agreement~with the gods, that is, praising
128 6 | the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves~
129 6 | that a man has torn thee with his~nails, and by dashing
130 6 | however as an enemy, nor yet with~suspicion, but we quietly
131 6 | have none,~make use of them with a generous and liberal spirit.
132 6 | is written, wouldst thou with a straining of the voice
133 6 | too?~Wilt thou not go on with composure and number every
134 6 | towards those who are angry with thee to go~on thy way and
135 6 | that thou art not~dyed with this dye; for such things
136 6 | understood it; and~how he bore with those who blamed him unjustly
137 6 | suspicious, nor a~sophist; and with how little he was satisfied,
138 6 | only those which are done with reference to the present;
139 6 | all things are~implicated with one another, and all in
140 6 | Adapt thyself to the things with which thy lot has been cast:
141 6 | either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile
142 6 | together to one end, some with knowledge and~design, and
143 6 | abundantly, who find fault with what happens and~those who
144 6 | the earth)? And how is it with respect~to each of the stars,
145 6 | arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content
146 6 | pleasure and to be content with~them. But if they determine
147 6 | gods were~present and lived with us- but if however the gods
148 6 | life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition
149 6 | virtues of~those who live with thee; for instance, the
150 6 | morals of those who live~with us and present themselves
151 6 | for as thou art~satisfied with the amount of substance
152 6 | assigned to~thee, so be content with the time.~ Let us try to
153 6 | remember that thy attempt was~with a reservation, that thou
154 6 | attends?~ How many together with whom I came into the world
155 7 | wilt find~the same things, with which the old histories
156 7 | and those of our own day; with which cities and houses
157 7 | sheep,~herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little
158 7 | taking to help me the man who with the aid of my ruling principle~
159 7 | whatsoever~either by myself or with another I can do, ought
160 7 | the battlements alone, but with the help of~another it is
161 7 | shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which
162 7 | All things are implicated with one another, and the bond
163 7 | hardly anything unconnected with any other thing. For~things
164 7 | made erect.~ Just as it is with the members in those bodies
165 7 | united in~one, so it is with rational beings which exist
166 7 | fashion. I am not angry with thee: only go away.~ Is
167 7 | being by their nature united with and~cooperating with the
168 7 | united with and~cooperating with the whole, as the parts
169 7 | as the parts of our body with one another.~How many a
170 7 | same thought occur to~thee with reference to every man and
171 7 | wrong, immediately consider with what~opinion about good
172 7 | through being so~pleased with them accustom thyself to
173 7 | nature, that it is content with itself when it does what
174 7 | do them.~ Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and
175 7 | simplicity and modesty and with indifference~towards the
176 7 | for it.~ ~ For the good is with me, and the just.~ ~ No
177 7 | if thou wert going~along with them; and constantly consider
178 7 | unsentient elements.~ ~ With food and drinks and cunning
179 7 | happens, nor more considerate with respect to the faults of
180 7 | overpowered by the others. And with good reason, for it is formed
181 7 | happens to thee and is spun with the thread~of thy destiny.
182 7 | things, and found fault with them: and now where are
183 7 | disputed more skilfully with the sophists, and passed
184 7 | passed the~night in the cold with more endurance, and that
185 7 | he~was able to be content with being just towards men and
186 7 | understanding to~sympathize with the affects of the miserable
187 7 | mingled the intelligence with the composition of~the body,
188 8 | ask thyself, How is this with respect~to me? Shall I repent
189 8 | who is under the~same law with God?~ Alexander and Gaius
190 8 | what are they in comparison with~Diogenes and Heraclitus
191 8 | For they were acquainted with~things, and their causes (
192 8 | most just, only let it be with a good disposition and~with
193 8 | with a good disposition and~with modesty and without hypocrisy.~
194 8 | Every nature is contented with itself when it goes on its
195 8 | and when it is~satisfied with everything that is assigned
196 8 | that any one~thing compared with any other single thing is
197 8 | thing and comparing them~with all the parts together of
198 8 | hear thee finding fault with the court life or~with thy
199 8 | fault with the court life or~with thy own.~ Repentance is
200 8 | When thou risest from sleep with reluctance, remember that
201 8 | Whatever man thou meetest with, immediately say to thyself:
202 8 | about good and bad? For if with respect to~pleasure and
203 8 | the causes of each, and with respect to fame and~ignominy,
204 8 | thy error is as consistent with freedom as it is to persist
205 8 | all agree, no, not any one with himself:~and the whole earth
206 8 | doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of~
207 8 | either seers or men inflated with~pride, where are they? For
208 8 | third to those who live~with thee.~ Pain is either an
209 8 | may be,~appropriately, not with any affectation: use plain
210 8 | can, who is not content with what happens, and~separates
211 8 | looking at and~receiving all with welcome eyes and using everything
212 8 | activity, and well pleased too with the~things which are obstacles.~
213 8 | self-collected it is satisfied with itself, if it does nothing
214 8 | a man who~is acquainted with nature, as thou wouldst
215 8 | decays.~She is content then with her own space, and her own
216 8 | hourly to freedom conjoined with~contentment, simplicity
217 8 | breathing only act in concert with the air which~surrounds
218 8 | intelligence also now be in harmony with~the intelligence which embraces
219 8 | is divided when it meets with any solid body~which stands
220 8 | violent or impetuous collision with the obstacles which are
221 8 | Teach them then or bear~with them.~ In one way an arrow
222 9 | inasmuch as he~is at variance with the universal nature, and
223 9 | man must often find fault~with the universal nature, alleging
224 9 | is plainly impiety. Now with respect to the~things towards
225 9 | should be of the~same mind with it, and equally affected.
226 9 | it, and equally affected. With respect to pain, then,~and
227 9 | thou determined~to abide with vice, and has not experience
228 9 | death, but be well content with it, since this too is~one
229 9 | This,~then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting
230 9 | impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death,~but to
231 9 | and the~morals of those with whom thy soul will no longer
232 9 | way right to be offended with men, but it is thy duty
233 9 | care~for them and to bear with them gently; and yet to
234 9 | to be permitted to live~with those who have the same
235 9 | disposition of~contentment with everything which happens-
236 9 | which is of the same kind with themselves.~Everything which
237 9 | ready to be kindled together~with all the fire which is here,
238 9 | because there is less mingled with it~of that which is a hindrance
239 9 | which is of the same kind with~itself, or moves even more.
240 9 | is superior in~comparison with all other things, in the
241 9 | it more~ready to mingle with and to be fused with that
242 9 | mingle with and to be fused with that which is akin to it.~
243 9 | earthy which comes in contact with no earthy thing than a man~
244 9 | has acted ignorantly or with knowledge, and that thou
245 9 | through not being contented with~thy ruling faculty, when
246 9 | this is so, be thou~content with that which is the result
247 9 | carries~everything along with it. But how worthless are
248 9 | freedom from perturbations with respect to the things~which
249 9 | into the same~condition with him who died prematurely.~
250 9 | ought not to find fault with~what is done for the benefit
251 9 | dost thou herd and feed with the rest?~ Either the gods
252 9 | certainly if they can co-operate with men, they can co-operate
253 9 | How shall I be able~to lie with that woman? Do thou pray
254 9 | shall I not desire to~lie with her? Another prays thus:
255 9 | hold trifling talk~either with an ignorant man or with
256 9 | with an ignorant man or with one unacquainted with nature,
257 9 | or with one unacquainted with nature, is a~principle of
258 9 | When thou art offended with any man's shameless conduct,
259 10| climate, or society of~men with whom thou mayest live in
260 10| But wilt thou be~satisfied with thy present condition, and
261 10| present condition, and pleased with all that is~about thee,
262 10| shalt so dwell in community with gods and men as neither
263 10| as neither to find fault~with them at all, nor to be condemned
264 10| nature to bear everything, with respect to which it~depends
265 10| which are of the same kind with myself. For remembering~
266 10| I shall be discontented with none of~the things which
267 10| whole, I shall be~content with everything that happens.
268 10| which are of the same kind with~myself, I shall do nothing
269 10| which are of the same kind with myself, and I~shall turn
270 10| fellow-citizens, and is content with whatever the state may assign~
271 10| implicates thee very much with that other part,~which has
272 10| those half-devoured fighters with wild beasts, who though~
273 10| beasts, who though~covered with wounds and gore, still intreat
274 10| life, not in passion, but with simplicity and~freedom and
275 10| time the power of dealing with circumstances is perfected,
276 10| being himself~contented with these two things, with acting
277 10| contented with these two things, with acting justly in what he
278 10| does, and being satisfied with what is now assigned to
279 10| according to thy powers with due consideration, keeping
280 10| steal and how~they rob, not with hands and feet, but with
281 10| with hands and feet, but with their most valuable~part,
282 10| obediently and well pleased~with her.~ Short is the little
283 10| things here are the same with things on top of~a mountain,
284 10| it~melted into and mixed with the poor flesh so as to
285 10| flesh so as to move together~with it?~ He who flies from his
286 10| downwards and upwards, not with the eyes, but still no less
287 10| dramas as we see now, only with different~actors.~ Imagine
288 10| before thy eyes this facility with~which the reason will be
289 10| healthy stomach ought to be~with respect to all food just
290 10| all food just as the mill with respect to all things~which
291 10| dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
292 10| by any person to inquire with thyself, For what object
293 10| man doing this? But begin with thyself, and examine thyself~
294 11| from mere obstinacy, as with the~Christians, but considerately
295 11| Christians, but considerately and with dignity and in a way to~
296 11| that, if you are delighted with~what is shown on the stage,
297 11| you should not be troubled with that which~takes place on
298 11| the first grew together with the tree, and has continued
299 11| continued to~have one life with it, is not like that which
300 11| when they say that it grows with the rest of the tree, but
301 11| it has~not the same mind with it.~ As those who try to
302 11| gods neither~dissatisfied with anything nor complaining.
303 11| nature, and~art satisfied with that which at this moment
304 11| have determined to~deal with thee in a fair way.- What
305 11| to their acts, consider with what pride they~do what
306 11| for many things are done with a certain~reference to circumstances.
307 11| my child.- And show him with~gentle tact and by general
308 11| thou must do this neither with any double~meaning nor in
309 11| disobedient and~discontented with its own place? And yet no
310 11| faculty is discontented with anything that~happens, then
311 11| generic term of~contentment with the constitution of things,
312 11| discover an art (or rules) with~respect to giving his assent;
313 11| careful that they be made with regard to circumstances,
314 11| that~they be consistent with social interests, that they
315 11| aversion) he should not show~it with respect to any of the things
316 12| that thou mayest be content~with the lot which is assigned
317 12| rind and impurities. For with his intellectual~part alone
318 12| is by nature~associated with the body, is attached to
319 12| have had most~communion with the divinity, and through
320 12| have been most intimate with the divinity, when they~
321 12| inquiry thou art disputing with the~diety; and we should
322 12| should not thus dispute with the gods, unless they~were
323 12| that God may give him.~ With respect to that which happens
324 12| time, has he been ill dealt with. But the~proper time and
325 12| profitable to and congruent with the universal.~For thus
326 12| moved in the same~manner with the deity and moved towards
327 12| justice herself would act; but with respect to what may happen
328 12| pursuit of anything conjoined with pride; and how worthless
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