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1 2 | ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract
2 2 | either be dissatisfied~with thy present lot, or shrink from
3 2 | cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods.~
4 2 | administrator of the universe thy existence is an~efflux,
5 2 | clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and~thou
6 2 | thou doest~every act of thy life as if it were the last,
7 2 | nearly finished, though thy soul~reverences not itself
8 2 | reverences not itself but places thy felicity in the souls of
9 3 | not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others,~
10 3 | when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object
11 3 | ask, What hast thou now in thy thoughts? With~perfect openness
12 3 | This or That; so~that from thy words it should be plain
13 3 | say that thou hadst it in~thy mind. For the man who is
14 3 | studied~ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not either
15 3 | word, anything better than thy own~mind's self-satisfaction
16 3 | assigned to~thee without thy own choice; if, I say, thou
17 3 | this, turn to it with all thy soul, and enjoy that which
18 3 | subjected to itself~all thy appetites, and carefully
19 3 | that good thing which is thy proper possession and thy~
20 3 | thy proper possession and thy~own; for it is not right
21 3 | animal, say so, and maintain thy judgement without arrogance:
22 3 | shall compel~thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect,
23 3 | break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any~
24 3 | whether there shall exist in thy ruling part any~opinion
25 3 | distract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, as if
26 3 | nothing, but satisfied with thy present~activity according
27 3 | for neither wilt thou read thy own~memoirs, nor the acts
28 3 | thou wast reserving for thy old age.~Hasten then to
29 3 | away idle hopes, come to thy own aid, if thou carest
30 3 | thyself, while it is in thy power.~ They know not how
31 4 | sort of men,~for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt
32 4 | and renew thyself; and let thy~principles be brief and
33 4 | badness of men? Recall to thy mind this conclusion, that
34 4 | the universe.- Recall to thy recollection this alternative;~
35 4 | small a nook in it is this thy dwelling, and how few are
36 4 | this little territory~of thy own, and above all do not
37 4 | among the things readiest to thy hand to which thou~shalt
38 4 | left behind.~ Take away thy opinion, and then there
39 4 | men; the other, to change thy opinion, if~there is any
40 4 | if thou wilt return to thy principles and the~worship
41 4 | thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.~ How much
42 4 | Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O~Nature:
43 4 | out to thee. In a word, thy life~is short. Thou must
44 4 | and justice. Be sober in thy relaxation.~ Either it is
45 4 | Fates, allowing~her to spin thy thread into whatever things
46 4 | turning and mutation of thy corporeal~covering. Where
47 4 | conformably to~nature, and end thy journey in content, just
48 5 | thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all~
49 5 | that which is according to thy nature?- But it is necessary
50 5 | what is sufficient; yet in thy acts~it is not so, but thou
51 5 | didst, thou wouldst love thy nature~and her will. But
52 5 | without food; but thou valuest thy own~own nature less than
53 5 | concern society more vile in thy eyes and less worthy of~
54 5 | eyes and less worthy of~thy labour?~ How easy it is
55 5 | go straight on, following thy own~nature and the common
56 5 | admire the sharpness of thy wits.- Be it~so: but there
57 5 | which~are altogether in thy power, sincerity, gravity,
58 5 | pleasure, contentment with thy portion and with~few things,
59 5 | and to find fault with thy poor body, and to try to
60 5 | and to be so restless in thy mind? No,~by the gods: but
61 5 | nor yet taking pleasure in thy dulness.~ One man, when
62 5 | to be of the same kind as thy~health. And so accept everything
63 5 | ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the~other,
64 5 | off, as far as it is in thy power, when thou art~dissatisfied,
65 5 | requires only~the things which thy nature requires; but thou
66 5 | who never changes? Carry thy thoughts then to the objects
67 5 | better man.~ Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such
68 5 | will be the character~of thy mind; for the soul is dyed
69 5 | everything else, is this, and thy life is directed by this.~
70 5 | to do.~ Let the part of thy soul which leads and governs
71 5 | offends- I wish thee well of thy discovery. Well then, and
72 5 | and thou hast~reason: by thy rational faculty stir up
73 5 | gone out,...so it is in~thy power to live here. But
74 5 | behaved hitherto to the gods, thy parents, brethren,~children,
75 5 | to those who looked after thy infancy, to thy~friends,
76 5 | looked after thy infancy, to thy~friends, kinsfolk, to thy
77 5 | thy~friends, kinsfolk, to thy slaves? Consider if thou
78 5 | and that~the history of thy life is now complete and
79 5 | life is now complete and thy service is ended:~and how
80 5 | wait in tranquility for thy end, whether it is extinction
81 5 | is neither thine nor in thy power.~ Thou canst pass
82 5 | power.~ Thou canst pass thy life in an equable flow
83 5 | of it, and in this to let thy desire find its~termination.~
84 5 | help to all according to thy ability and their fitness;
85 6 | warm,~if thou art doing thy duty; and whether thou art
86 6 | thou~wouldst be dutiful to thy step-mother, but still thou
87 6 | wouldst~constantly return to thy mother. Let the court and
88 6 | employed about things~worth thy pains, it is then that it
89 6 | which thou didst receive at thy birth~yesterday and the
90 6 | thyself~in conformity to thy proper constitution, to
91 6 | free, nor sufficient for~thy own happiness, nor without
92 6 | to reverence and honour thy own mind will make thee~
93 6 | and by dashing against thy head has inflicted a wound.
94 6 | Something like this~let thy behaviour be in all the
95 6 | certain parts. These it is thy duty to observe and without
96 6 | angry with thee to go~on thy way and finish that which
97 6 | give way in this life,~when thy body does not give way.~
98 6 | good a conscience, when~thy last hour comes, as he had.~
99 6 | comes, as he had.~ Return to thy sober senses and call thyself
100 6 | which troubled thee, now in thy waking hours look at these (
101 6 | to the things with which thy lot has been cast: and~the
102 6 | whom thou hast received thy portion, love them, but
103 6 | things which are not within thy power thou shalt~suppose
104 6 | nations are dead, so that thy thoughts come down even
105 6 | and Origanion. Now turn thy thoughts to the~other kinds
106 6 | worth a great deal, to~pass thy life in truth and justice,
107 6 | by using force stands in thy way, betake thyself to contentment
108 6 | virtue; and remember that thy attempt was~with a reservation,
109 6 | this.- But thou attainest thy object, if the things to
110 6 | according to the reason of thy~own nature: nothing will
111 7 | extinguished? But it is in thy~power continuously to fan
112 7 | Let this be the state of thy affects, and thou~standest
113 7 | standest erect. To recover thy life is in thy power. Look
114 7 | To recover thy life is in thy power. Look at things~again
115 7 | consists the~recovery of thy life.~ The idle business
116 7 | strings-~all alike. It is thy duty then in the midst of
117 7 | to be helped; for it is thy business to do thy duty~
118 7 | it is thy business to do thy duty~like a soldier in the
119 7 | dost not yet~love men from thy heart; beneficence does
120 7 | thou art come~according to thy old fashion. I am not angry
121 7 | not allow now.~ Near is thy forgetfulness of all things;
122 7 | harm, for he has not made thy ruling faculty worse~than
123 7 | of the same kind. It is thy duty then to~pardon him.
124 7 | and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong
125 7 | wrong was done.~ Direct thy attention to what is said.
126 7 | attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter~into
127 7 | and at all times it is in thy power piously to~acquiesce
128 7 | piously to~acquiesce in thy present condition, and to
129 7 | about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present~thoughts,
130 7 | to exert thy skill upon thy present~thoughts, that nothing
131 7 | which happen to thee, and thy~own nature through the acts
132 7 | dead, and to have completed thy life up to~the present time;
133 7 | spun with the thread~of thy destiny. For what is more
134 7 | which happens keep before thy eyes those to whom the~same
135 7 | subjection to thyself all that is thy~own; for it is very possible
136 7 | obedient to God.~ It is in thy power to live free from
137 8 | that it is no longer in thy power to have lived the
138 8 | have lived the whole of thy~life, or at least thy life
139 8 | of thy~life, or at least thy life from thy youth upwards,
140 8 | or at least thy life from thy youth upwards, like a philosopher;~
141 8 | reputation of a philosopher; and thy~plan of life also opposes
142 8 | thou shalt live the rest of thy life in such wise as~thy
143 8 | thy life in such wise as~thy nature wills. Observe then
144 8 | next~place having fixed thy eyes steadily on thy business
145 8 | fixed thy eyes steadily on thy business look at it, and~
146 8 | time remembering that it is thy duty to be a good man, and~
147 8 | with the court life or~with thy own.~ Repentance is a kind
148 8 | that it is~according to thy constitution and according
149 8 | Remember that to change thy opinion and to follow him
150 8 | follow him who corrects~thy error is as consistent with
151 8 | freedom as it is to persist in thy~error. For it is thy own,
152 8 | in thy~error. For it is thy own, the activity which
153 8 | is exerted according to~thy own movement and judgement,
154 8 | and indeed according to thy own~understanding too.~
155 8 | understanding too.~ If a thing is in thy own power, why dost thou
156 8 | either be dissolved, or~thy poor breath must be extinguished,
157 8 | ascends so high.~ Wipe out thy imaginations by often saying
158 8 | of a whole race.~ It is thy duty to order thy life well
159 8 | It is thy duty to order thy life well in every single
160 8 | will stand in the~way of thy acting justly and soberly
161 8 | being content to transfer thy efforts to~that which is
162 8 | provision, that it is in thy power again to unite~thyself.
163 8 | thinking of the whole of thy life. Let not~thy thoughts
164 8 | whole of thy life. Let not~thy thoughts at once embrace
165 8 | circumscribest~it, and chidest thy mind, if it is unable to
166 8 | temperance.~ If thou takest away thy opinion about that which
167 8 | obstacle opposed~thee in thy efforts towards an object?
168 8 | that disturbs thee, but thy own judgement about it.
169 8 | judgement about it. And it is in thy~power to wipe out this judgement
170 8 | now. But if anything in thy own~disposition gives thee
171 8 | hinders thee from correcting thy~opinion? And even if thou
172 8 | this~cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life
173 8 | her own~art.~ Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor
174 8 | actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without~method,
175 8 | method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there
176 8 | thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul~inward contention nor
177 8 | these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure,~
178 8 | he does?~ No longer let thy breathing only act in concert
179 8 | surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be
180 9 | operations~which the seasons of thy life bring, such also is
181 9 | child shall come out of thy wife's womb,~so be ready
182 9 | ready for the time when thy soul shall fall out of this~
183 9 | comfort which~shall reach thy heart, thou wilt be made
184 9 | morals of those with whom thy soul will no longer be mingled.
185 9 | offended with men, but it is thy duty to care~for them and
186 9 | and yet to remember that thy~departure will be not from
187 9 | who does a certain thing.~ Thy present opinion founded
188 9 | founded on understanding, and thy present~conduct directed
189 9 | directed to social good, and thy present disposition of~contentment
190 9 | kind they are. And it is in thy power also; or say, who
191 9 | pitied or admired: but direct thy will to one thing only,
192 9 | whole universe too.~ It is thy duty to leave another man'
193 9 | death, is no evil. Turn thy thoughts now to the~consideration
194 9 | to the~consideration of thy life, thy life as a child,
195 9 | consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth,
196 9 | as a child, as a youth, thy~manhood, thy old age, for
197 9 | as a youth, thy~manhood, thy old age, for in these also
198 9 | this anything to fear? Turn thy thoughts now to thy life
199 9 | Turn thy thoughts now to thy life under thy~grandfather,
200 9 | thoughts now to thy life under thy~grandfather, then to thy
201 9 | thy~grandfather, then to thy life under thy mother, then
202 9 | then to thy life under thy mother, then to thy life
203 9 | under thy mother, then to thy life under~thy father; and
204 9 | then to thy life under~thy father; and as thou findest
205 9 | cessation and change of thy~whole life a thing to be
206 9 | afraid of.~ Hasten to examine thy own ruling faculty and that
207 9 | the universe~and that of thy neighbour: thy own that
208 9 | and that of thy neighbour: thy own that thou mayest make
209 9 | art a~part; and that of thy neighbour, that thou mayest
210 9 | end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow
211 9 | not being contented with~thy ruling faculty, when it
212 9 | thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and~do not look about
213 9 | and how many know not even thy~name, and how many will
214 9 | for this is~according to thy nature.~ Thou canst remove
215 9 | for they lie entirely in thy opinion; and thou~wilt then
216 9 | comprehending the whole~universe in thy mind, and by contemplating
217 9 | gods have placed them~in thy power. Well, then, is it
218 9 | better to use what is in thy power~like a free man than
219 9 | abject way what is not~in thy power? And who has told
220 9 | lose him? In fine, turn thy prayers this way, and see
221 9 | considerations be present~to thy mind in the case of the
222 9 | has done anything by which thy mind could be made worse;
223 9 | hadst means given~thee by thy reason to suppose that it
224 9 | the fault is manifestly thy own,~whether thou didst
225 9 | promise, or when conferring thy kindness thou didst not~
226 9 | as to have received from thy~very act all the profit.
227 9 | something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek
228 10| wilt thou be~satisfied with thy present condition, and pleased
229 10| condemned by them?~ Observe what thy nature requires, so far
230 10| do it and accept it, if thy nature, so far as thou~art
231 10| next thou must observe what thy nature requires so far as
232 10| mayest allow thyself, if thy~nature, so far as thou art
233 10| respect to which it~depends on thy own opinion to make it endurable
234 10| thinking that it is either thy interest or thy duty to
235 10| is either thy interest or thy duty to do this.~ If a man
236 10| eternity spinning the~thread of thy being, and of that which
237 10| changes, not~that which thy mother brought forth. But
238 10| suppose that this which thy~mother brought forth implicates
239 10| them and dost not maintain thy hold,~go courageously into
240 10| laudable thing at least in~thy life, to have gone out of
241 10| thou neglect? But it is~thy duty so to look on and so
242 10| suspicious fear, since it is in thy power to~inquire what ought
243 10| thee, go on~according to thy powers with due consideration,
244 10| and~if thou dost fail, let thy failure be in attempting
245 10| going away, and this was thy own will; or thou art dying~
246 10| dying~and hast discharged thy duty. But besides these
247 10| again. And~place before thy eyes entire dramas and stages
248 10| whatever thou hast learned from thy experience or from older~
249 10| thou wilt quickly~forget thy anger, if this consideration
250 10| Then let this thought be in thy~mind, Where then are those
251 10| a brief space of time is thy~existence? And why art thou
252 10| matter and opportunity for thy activity~art thou avoiding?
253 10| shalt have made these things thy own, as the~stomach which
254 10| and this is~altogether in thy power. For who is he that
255 10| whatever this may~be, it is in thy power to do it or to say
256 10| not cease to lament till thy~mind is in such a condition
257 10| they choose. Place before thy eyes this facility with~
258 10| men.~ ~Leaves, also, are thy children; and leaves, too,
259 10| time, and~thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended
260 10| who has attended thee to thy~grave another soon will
261 10| to~them, but preserving thy own character, and friendly
262 10| the body, such also ought thy departure from men to be,
263 11| apply this rule also to thy whole life.~ What a soul
264 11| this always be present to thy mind, and never stop~doing
265 11| doing such good.~ What is thy art? To be good. And how
266 11| those who try to stand in thy way when thou art proceeding~
267 11| to turn thee aside from~thy proper action, so neither
268 11| let them drive thee from thy~benevolent feelings towards
269 11| towards them, but be on thy guard equally in~both matters,
270 11| well as to be diverted from thy course of action and to~
271 11| goest to them. Let then thy~judgement about them be
272 11| doing what is agreeable to thy own nature, and~art satisfied
273 11| a human being placed at thy post in~order that what
274 11| seek what is conformable to thy own nature, and~strive towards
275 11| and~resolve to dismiss thy judgement about an act as
276 11| something grievous, and thy anger is gone. How then
277 11| and without any~rancour in thy soul; and not as if thou
278 11| shouldst be constantly on thy guard, and when thou hast~
279 11| to its gross pleasures.~ Thy aerial part and all the
280 11| it not then~strange that thy intelligent part only should
281 12| when thou shalt be near to thy departure, neglecting everything~
282 12| thou shalt respect only thy ruling faculty and the divinity~
283 12| cease to be a stranger in thy~native land, and to wonder
284 12| thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For~he who
285 12| are~thine, so far as it is thy duty to take care of them;
286 12| from~thyself, that is, from thy understanding, whatever
287 12| attached to thee independent of thy will,~and whatever the external
288 12| live only what is really thy life, that~is, the present-
289 12| for thee up to the time of thy death, free from~perturbations,
290 12| nobly, and obedient to thy own daemon (to the god~that
291 12| In the application of thy principles thou must be
292 12| temperance be extinguished before thy death?~ When a man has presented
293 12| do not say~it. For let thy efforts be-~ In everything
294 12| a purpose. Second,~make thy acts refer to nothing else
295 12| opinion, and opinion is in thy power.~Take away then, when
296 12| then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner,~
297 12| this.~ Constantly bring to thy recollection those who have
298 12| let there be present to thy mind also everything of
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