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1 1 | credit to what was said by miracle-workers and jugglers
2 1 | those who have~offended me by words, or done me wrong,
3 1 | without being either humbled by~them or letting them pass
4 1 | was most~highly venerated by those who associated with
5 1 | not about the word, or by some other fit~suggestion.~
6 1 | neglect of duties required by our relation~to those with
7 1 | those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.~
8 1 | believe that I am loved by my friends; and in him I
9 1 | and not to be led aside by~anything; and cheerfulness
10 1 | think that he was despised by Maximus, or ever~venture
11 1 | failed to accompany him, by reason of any urgent circumstances,
12 1 | gods, nor did he court men by gifts or by trying to~please
13 1 | he court men by gifts or by trying to~please them, or
14 1 | trying to~please them, or by flattering the populace;
15 1 | nor yet was he easily~led by them. He was also easy in
16 1 | reputation which~is got by a man's acts. He did not
17 1 | a brother, who was~able by his moral character to rouse
18 1 | the same time, pleased me by his respect and affection;~
19 1 | remedies have been~shown to me by dreams, both others, and
20 2 | TWO~ ~ BEGIN the morning by saying to thyself, I shall
21 2 | these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance
22 2 | I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one~
23 2 | slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like~a puppet
24 2 | things which are ordered by Providence. From~thence
25 2 | universe is preserved, as by the changes of the elements
26 2 | changes of the elements so by the~changes of things compounded
27 2 | wearied~themselves in life by their activity, and yet
28 2 | anger. For he who is excited by anger seems to turn away
29 2 | desire, being overpowered by pleasure, seems to be in
30 2 | but the other~is moved by his own impulse to do wrong,
31 2 | towards doing~something by desire.~ Since it is possible
32 2 | bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad
33 2 | pain, or are noised abroad by vapoury~fame; how worthless,
34 2 | looks at it~in itself, and by the abstractive power of
35 2 | comes near to the deity, and by what part of him, and when~
36 2 | the poet says,~and seeks by conjecture what is in the
37 2 | men should be dear to us by reason of kinship; and sometimes
38 2 | manner, they move our pity by reason of men's ignorance
39 2 | opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus~is manifest:
40 2 | itself when it is overpowered by pleasure or by pain. Fourthly,
41 2 | overpowered by pleasure or by pain. Fourthly, when~it
42 3 | things which are formed by~nature, help to adorn them,
43 3 | one of those which~follow by way of consequence which
44 3 | painters and sculptors show by imitation; and in an old
45 3 | thou wilt cease to be held by~pains and pleasures, and
46 3 | makes the man~uncontaminated by pleasure, unharmed by any
47 3 | uncontaminated by pleasure, unharmed by any pain, untouched by any~
48 3 | unharmed by any pain, untouched by any~insult, feeling no wrong,
49 3 | who~cannot be overpowered by any passion, dyed deep with
50 3 | home and from home, both by night~and by day, and what
51 3 | home, both by night~and by day, and what they are,
52 3 | erect, not be~kept erect by others.~ If thou findest
53 3 | thou makest the inquiry by a sure method.~ Never value
54 3 | even this only continued by a~succession of poor human
55 3 | many things are signified by the words stealing,~sowing,
56 3 | for~this is not effected by the eyes, but by another
57 3 | effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.~
58 3 | the~impressions of forms by means of appearances belongs
59 3 | to~animals; to be pulled by the strings of desire belongs
60 3 | his breast, nor disturb it by a crowd of images, but~to
61 4 | hold of what falls into it, by~which a small light would
62 4 | consumes it, and rises higher by means of this very material.~
63 4 | within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is~
64 4 | or remember the arguments by which it has been proved
65 4 | these things should be done by such persons, it~is a matter
66 4 | fig-tree to have juice. But by all means bear this in~mind,
67 4 | and as if it were done by one who~assigns to each
68 4 | into its seminal~principle by transmutation.~ Many grains
69 4 | nor better is a thing made by being praised. I affirm~
70 4 | which are called beautiful by the vulgar,~for example,
71 4 | it is praised, or spoiled by being blamed? Is~such a
72 4 | and assume a fiery nature by being received~into the
73 4 | animals which are daily eaten~by us and the other animals.
74 4 | this earth receives them by reason of the changes of~
75 4 | turn to profit the present by the aid of reason~and justice.
76 4 | not, he says, and I~abide by reason.- And I do not get
77 4 | my~learning, and I abide by my reason.~ Love the art,
78 4 | that all things take place by change, and~accustom thyself
79 4 | suspicion of being hurt by external things,~nor kindly
80 4 | from~pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing
81 4 | freedom, and~everything else, by the presence of which man'
82 5 | thee; and be not diverted by the blame which follows
83 5 | follows from any~people nor by their words, but if a thing
84 5 | I~am not formed for them by nature. Show those qualities
85 5 | being~defectively furnished by nature to murmur, and to
86 5 | restless in thy mind? No,~by the gods: but thou mightest
87 5 | for even they are misled~by a certain show of reason.
88 5 | judges to be good, be judged by thee to be of the same kind
89 5 | to that which~is directed by it. For two reasons then
90 5 | applicable that which was said by the comic writer. Thus even
91 5 | me then will be reduced by~change into some part of
92 5 | and so on for ever. And by consequence~of such a change
93 5 | signifies that they~proceed by the right road.~ None of
94 5 | mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then
95 5 | man which he is not formed by nature to bear.~The same
96 5 | and thy life is directed by this.~ That which does no
97 5 | the~state is not harmed by this, neither am I harmed.
98 5 | rapidity with which things pass by and disappear,~both the
99 5 | and of that which is fixed by~destiny, and how small a
100 5 | and governs be undisturbed by~the movements in the flesh,
101 5 | affects rise up to the mind~by virtue of that other sympathy
102 5 | then, and thou hast~reason: by thy rational faculty stir
103 5 | substance~and through all time by fixed periods (revolutions)
104 5 | happiness, if thou~canst go by the right way, and think
105 5 | being, not to be hindered by~another; and to hold good
106 5 | carried along inconsiderately by the appearance of things,~
107 6 | nor is anything~harmed by it. But all things are made
108 6 | the acts of life, this act by~which we die: it is sufficient
109 6 | thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed
110 6 | mastery over~the harmony by continually recurring to
111 6 | strip them of all the words by which they are~exalted.
112 6 | which are held together by~cohesion or natural organization,
113 6 | those which are admired by men who are a little~more
114 6 | which are held together~by a living principle, as flocks,
115 6 | Those which are admired by~men who are still more instructed
116 6 | which are held~together by a rational soul, not however
117 6 | of the things which hurry by on which a~man would set
118 6 | of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already~passed
119 6 | receiving of impressions by the appearances of things,
120 6 | things, nor being moved~by desires as puppets by strings,
121 6 | moved~by desires as puppets by strings, nor assembling
122 6 | herds, nor being~nourished by food; for this is just like
123 6 | have that which is valued by~thee. Of necessity a man
124 6 | more divine,~and advancing by a way hardly observed it
125 6 | to be themselves~praised by posterity, by those whom
126 6 | themselves~praised by posterity, by those whom they have never
127 6 | difficult to be accomplished by thyself, do not~think that
128 6 | that this can be attained~by thyself too.~ In the gymnastic
129 6 | thee with his~nails, and by dashing against thy head
130 6 | change; for I seek the truth by which no~man was ever injured.
131 6 | Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to~the
132 6 | requiring to relieve himself by any evacuations except at
133 6 | pleasures have been enjoyed by robbers, patricides,~tyrants.~
134 6 | either directly proceeding or by way of sequence. And~accordingly
135 6 | after another, and this is by~virtue of the active movement
136 6 | which are held together by nature there is within and
137 6 | the things which happen by way of sequence in this
138 6 | sacrifice nor pray nor~swear by them nor do anything else
139 6 | way. If however any man~by using force stands in thy
140 6 | carefully to what is said by another, and~as much as
141 6 | bitter, and to those bitten by mad~dogs water causes fear;
142 6 | poison in him who~is bitten by a mad dog?~ No man will
143 6 | and for~what objects, and by what kind of acts? How soon
144 7 | little mice, puppets pulled by strings-~all alike. It is
145 7 | work as an instrument given by the universal~nature. But
146 7 | good. For whatsoever~either by myself or with another I
147 7 | many after being celebrated by fame have been given up
148 7 | faculty itself will not by its~own opinion turn itself
149 7 | Go away, I entreat thee by~the gods, as thou didst
150 7 | bodies are carried, being by their nature united with
151 7 | the~forgetfulness of thee by all.~ It is peculiar to
152 7 | the wrong which~is done by a man stay there where the
153 7 | maintains its own~tranquility by retiring into itself, and
154 7 | the parts which are harmed by pain, let them, if~they
155 7 | before are soon covered by those which come after.~
156 7 | be regulated and composed by itself.~ ~ It is not right
157 7 | him, or has been placed by a~commander, there in my
158 7 | we are~able to get profit by means of the activity which
159 7 | acts which must be done by thee. But every~being ought
160 7 | to be overpowered either by the~motion of the senses
161 7 | itself to be~overpowered by the others. And with good
162 7 | reason, for it is formed by~nature to use all of them.
163 7 | and those who are moved by them? And why art thou~not
164 7 | the mind shows in the face by~maintaining in it the expression
165 7 | and the being scorched by heat, and the having no~
166 7 | to be recognised~as such by no one. Always bear this
167 7 | receiving what is~useful by doing it to others.~ The
168 7 | everything that takes place comes by way of consequence or continuity;~
169 7 | own movement are governed by no rational~principle. If
170 8 | everything that is assigned to it by the common nature.~For of
171 8 | equal in all respects,~but by taking all the parts together
172 8 | Wipe out thy imaginations by often saying to thyself:
173 8 | be hindered.- Well, but by acquiescing~in the hindrance
174 8 | acquiescing~in the hindrance and by being content to transfer
175 8 | unity- for thou wast made~by nature a part, but now thou
176 8 | But consider the~kindness by which he has distinguished
177 8 | Do not disturb thyself by thinking of the whole of
178 8 | Panthea or Pergamus now sit by the tomb of Verus? Does
179 8 | Chaurias~or Diotimus sit by the tomb of Hadrian? That
180 8 | nothing which may not be borne by thee.~ If thou art pained
181 8 | thee.~ If thou art pained by any external thing, it is
182 8 | judgement about anything aided by~reason and deliberately?
183 8 | Thus then~always abide by the first appearances, and
184 8 | For thou wilt be ridiculed by a man who~is acquainted
185 8 | thou wouldst be ridiculed by a carpenter~and shoemaker
186 8 | instance, if a man should stand by a limpid~pure spring, and
187 8 | fountain and not a~mere well? By forming thyself hourly to
188 8 | thou wish to be praised by a man who curses himself
189 9 | inasmuch as he acts unjustly~by deceiving; and he also who
190 9 | as he~disturbs the order by fighting against the nature
191 9 | those who come~after them by virtue of a certain original
192 9 | best reconciled to death by~observing the objects from
193 9 | earthy nature, and~we see by one light, and breathe one
194 9 | they are caught and~held by it, for their nature is
195 9 | If thou art able, correct by teaching those who do wrong;
196 9 | outside of us, themselves by themselves, neither~knowing
197 9 | popular assembly~a man acting by himself stands apart from
198 9 | which it is constituted by~nature to do. But enough
199 9 | disposed towards them,~for by nature they are friends.
200 9 | too aid them in all ways,~by dreams, by signs, towards
201 9 | in all ways,~by dreams, by signs, towards the attainment
202 9 | and everything else comes by way of sequence in~a manner;
203 9 | not thou~also be governed by it.~ Soon will the earth
204 9 | consider, too, the life lived by others in~olden time, and
205 9 | justice in the~things done by virtue of the internal cause,
206 9 | for thyself ample space by comprehending the whole~
207 9 | universe in thy mind, and by contemplating the eternity
208 9 | think that they do harm by their blame or good by their
209 9 | harm by their blame or good by their praise,~what an idea!~
210 9 | doing and on the instrument by which thou~doest it.~ When
211 9 | possible for thee to correct by teaching~the man who is
212 9 | irritated~has done anything by which thy mind could be
213 9 | thou hadst means given~thee by thy reason to suppose that
214 9 | particular purpose,~and by working according to their
215 9 | so also as man is formed by nature to acts of~benevolence,
216 10| all, nor to be condemned by them?~ Observe what thy
217 10| far as thou art governed by~nature only: then do it
218 10| shall not be made worse by it.~ And next thou must
219 10| shall not be made~worse by it. But the rational animal
220 10| wise as thou art~formed by nature to bear it, or as
221 10| or as thou art not formed by nature to~bear it. If, then,
222 10| such way as thou art formed~by nature to bear it, do not
223 10| bear it as thou art~formed by nature to bear it. But if
224 10| wise as thou~art not formed by nature to bear it, do not
225 10| however, that thou art~formed by nature to bear everything,
226 10| endurable and tolerable, by~thinking that it is either
227 10| whole which~is governed by nature; next, I am in a
228 10| cannot be compelled~even by any external cause to generate
229 10| anything harmful to itself.~By remembering, then, that
230 10| certain periods~is consumed by fire or renewed by eternal
231 10| consumed by fire or renewed by eternal changes. And do
232 10| which are assigned to thee by the common nature; and that~
233 10| without desiring~to be called by these names by others, thou
234 10| be called by these names by others, thou wilt be another
235 10| course through the law, and by~accomplishing the straight
236 10| if thou seest clear, go by this way~content, without
237 10| their most valuable~part, by means of which there is
238 10| everything is so constituted by nature as to die.~ Consider
239 10| things which are appointed by him who rules all~things,
240 10| reputation, and the like. For by attending to this thou wilt
241 10| has viewed carefully and by~examination into their nature
242 10| cylinder to move everywhere by its own motion, nor yet
243 10| anything else which is governed by nature or an~irrational
244 10| manner as they are formed by~nature and as they choose.
245 10| and more worthy of praise by~making a right use of these
246 10| To him who is penetrated by true principles even the
247 10| that there shall not be by him when~he is dying some
248 10| depart more contentedly~by reflecting thus: I am going
249 10| get some~little advantage by it. Why then should a man
250 10| occasion of anything~being done by any person to inquire with
251 11| understanding at all, has seen by~virtue of the uniformity
252 11| each, if thou art mastered by~this; for thou wilt be prevented
253 11| for thou wilt be prevented by shame from confessing it:
254 11| their several parts, and by this division to come~to
255 11| accomplished well~except by general principles, some
256 11| some things are said well by the dramatic~writers, of
257 11| magisterial~freedom of speech, and by its very plainness of speaking
258 11| good~things are said even by these writers, everybody
259 11| another cuts it off, but a man by his own act separates~himself
260 11| alienated from~him who is by nature a kinsman and a friend.~
261 11| down, but is illuminated by light, by which it~sees
262 11| is illuminated by light, by which it~sees the truth,
263 11| and a man ought to be seen by the gods neither~dissatisfied
264 11| It will soon show itself by acts. The~voice ought to
265 11| take~away these opinions? By reflecting that no wrongful
266 11| more pain is brought on us by the anger~and vexation caused
267 11| anger~and vexation caused by such acts than by the acts
268 11| caused by such acts than by the acts themselves, at
269 11| child: we are~constituted by nature for something else:
270 11| him with~gentle tact and by general principles that
271 11| animals which are formed by~nature to be gregarious.
272 11| anger, that to be moved by~passion is not manly, but
273 11| mingled in thee,~though by nature they have an upward
274 11| or other are considered by the majority to be good,
275 11| the opinions of the many by the name of~Lamiae, bugbears
276 11| because I would not perish by the worst of all ends,~that
277 12| which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous~road, thou
278 12| will~not trouble himself by looking after raiment and
279 12| breath (life), which is by nature~associated with the
280 12| fate can live pure~and free by itself, doing what is just
281 12| which are attached to it by the impressions of~sense,
282 12| be~when he is overtaken by death; and consider the
283 12| how no man is hindered by another; that everything
284 12| appearance, and resolve it by dividing it into the formal,
285 12| and as it were~pull thee by the strings. What is there
286 12| For all things are formed by nature to change~and be
287 12| always the universal nature, by the change~of whose parts
288 12| For thus too he is moved by the deity who is moved in
289 12| consider that it happens either by chance or~according to Providence,
290 12| have been most conspicuous by the~greatest fame or misfortunes
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