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  1 1 |                        BOOK ONE~ ~ FROM my grandfather Verus I learned
  2 1 |          government~of my temper.~ From the reputation and remembrance
  3 1 |            and a~manly character.~ From my mother, piety and beneficence,
  4 1 |           and abstinence, not only from~evil deeds, but even from
  5 1 |          from~evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and further,
  6 1 |         way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.~
  7 1 |           the habits of the rich.~ From my great-grandfather, not
  8 1 |           should spend liberally.~ From my governor, to be neither
  9 1 |            the gladiators' fights; from him too I learned~endurance
 10 1 |       ready to listen to slander.~ From Diognetus, not to busy myself
 11 1 |           the Grecian discipline.~ From Rusticus I received the
 12 1 |    improvement and discipline; and from him I learned not to be
 13 1 |            display; and to abstain from~rhetoric, and poetry, and
 14 1 |        letter which Rusticus~wrote from Sinuessa to my mother; and
 15 1 |            of his own collection.~ From Apollonius I learned freedom
 16 1 |        smallest of his merits; and from him I learned how to receive
 17 1 |           I learned how to receive from~friends what are esteemed
 18 1 |      letting them pass unnoticed.~ From Sextus, a benevolent disposition,
 19 1 |     passion, but was entirely free from passion, and~also most affectionate;
 20 1 |    knowledge without ostentation.~ From Alexander the grammarian,
 21 1 |         the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and~not in
 22 1 |        some other fit~suggestion.~ From Fronto I learned to observe
 23 1 |            in paternal affection.~ From Alexander the Platonic,
 24 1 |      alleging urgent occupations.~ From Catulus, not to be indifferent
 25 1 |           love my children~truly.~ From my brother Severus, to love
 26 1 |            Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea
 27 1 |            the~governed; I learned from him also consistency and
 28 1 |           but it was quite plain.~ From Maximus I learned self-government,
 29 1 |           to forgive, and was free from all falsehood; and he~presented
 30 1 |          who could not be diverted from right~rather than of a man
 31 1 |            and a~knowledge derived from experience of the occasions
 32 1 |            he~released his friends from all obligation to sup with
 33 1 |         his slaves. His dress came from Lorium, his villa on the~
 34 1 |            villa on the~coast, and from Lanuvium generally. We know
 35 1 |           was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those~things
 36 1 |            are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy~without
 37 1 |        able to take away all~pride from me, and to bring me to the
 38 1 |  inspirations, nothing hindered me from~forthwith living according
 39 1 |      happened, to receive anything from another; that I have such
 40 2 |         thy present lot, or shrink from the future.~ All that is
 41 2 |           the future.~ All that is from the gods is full of Providence.
 42 2 |          Providence. That which is~from fortune is not separated
 43 2 |           fortune is not separated from nature or without an interweaving~
 44 2 |         are ordered by Providence. From~thence all things flow;
 45 2 |         but~cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the
 46 2 |            received an opportunity from the gods, and yet dost~not
 47 2 |           clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and~
 48 2 |         and to give thyself relief from~all other thoughts. And
 49 2 |            and passionate aversion from the commands of reason,~
 50 2 |          will require nothing more from him who observes these things.~
 51 2 |            no one~who hinders thee from always doing and saying
 52 2 |           anger seems to turn away from reason~with a certain pain
 53 2 |            that thou mayest depart from life this very~moment, regulate
 54 2 |        accordingly. But to go away~from among men, if there are
 55 2 |        consists in keeping it pure from passion and thoughtlessness,
 56 2 |    dissatisfaction with what comes from gods and men. For the things
 57 2 |            and men. For the things from~the gods merit veneration
 58 2 |         excellence; and the things from~men should be dear to us
 59 2 |          how can any one take this from him? These two~things then
 60 2 |           the one, that all things from~eternity are of like forms
 61 2 |            separation~of ourselves from nature, in some part of
 62 2 |          itself when it turns away from any man, or even moves~towards
 63 2 |           daemon within a man free from~violence and unharmed, superior
 64 2 |        that is allotted, as~coming from thence, wherever it is,
 65 2 |            thence, wherever it is, from whence he himself came;~
 66 3 |            a man should now depart from life, and~whatever else
 67 3 |           and the foam which flows from~the mouth of wild boars,
 68 3 |        things- though they are far~from being beautiful, if a man
 69 3 |    themselves too at last~departed from life. Heraclitus, after
 70 3 |          kind makes us wander away~from the observation of our own
 71 3 |      answer, This or That; so~that from thy words it should be plain
 72 3 |          they are both at home and from home, both by night~and
 73 3 |         all the praise which comes~from such men, since they are
 74 3 |           signal which summons him~from life, and ready to go, having
 75 3 |          said, has detached itself from the persuasions of sense,~
 76 3 |         other kind, such as~praise from the many, or power, or enjoyment
 77 3 |          either~pursuing or flying from death; but whether for a
 78 3 |         his thoughts~turn not away from anything which belongs to
 79 3 |           things, nor yet detached from other things, nothing worthy
 80 3 |           faculty promises freedom from hasty~judgement, and friendship
 81 3 |         man should say: this comes from God; and this is~according
 82 3 |            and chance; and this is from one of~the same stock, and
 83 3 |       Hellenes, and the~selections from books which thou wast reserving
 84 3 |          them,~nor does he deviate from the way which leads to the
 85 4 |         more quiet or more freedom from~trouble does a man retire
 86 4 |         and to send thee back free from all discontent with the
 87 4 |            perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.
 88 4 |        human race are members? And from thence, from this common~
 89 4 |          members? And from thence, from this common~political community
 90 4 |           is a portion given to me from certain earth,~and that
 91 4 |           and that which is watery from another element, and that
 92 4 |        that which is hot~and fiery from some peculiar source (for
 93 4 |            intellectual part comes from some source.~ Death is such
 94 4 |            does it harm him either from without or from~within.~
 95 4 |         him either from without or from~within.~ The nature of that
 96 4 |          thee right and moves thee from any~opinion. But this change
 97 4 |          opinion must proceed only from a certain~persuasion, as
 98 4 |         the line without~deviating from it.~ He who has a vehement
 99 4 |          does the air contain them from~eternity?- But how does
100 4 |         those who~have been buried from time so remote? For as here
101 4 |           seasons bring, O~Nature: from thee are all things, in
102 4 |            tranquility which comes from doing well, but also that~
103 4 |          but also that~which comes from doing few things. For the
104 4 |          Well; out of the universe from the beginning everything
105 4 |            is a runaway, who flies from social reason; he is blind,
106 4 |            of~another, and has not from himself all things which
107 4 |    withdraws and separates~himself from the reason of our common
108 4 |            is a piece rent asunder~from the state, who tears his
109 4 |             who tears his own soul from that of reasonable~animals,
110 4 |    necessary, as usual, as flowing from a principle and~source of
111 4 |           not yet simple, not free from~perturbations, nor without
112 4 |            like children who learn from their parents, simply to
113 4 |            because I continue free from~pain, neither crushed by
114 4 |            not have continued free from pain on such an occasion.
115 4 |           which is not a~deviation from man's nature? And does a
116 4 |          to thee to be a~deviation from man's nature, when it is
117 4 |          has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous,~
118 4 |    falsehood; will it prevent thee from having modesty, freedom,
119 4 |         such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare,~and
120 5 |            the blame which follows from any~people nor by their
121 5 |            of superfluity, freedom~from trifling magnanimity. Dost
122 5 |       mightest have been delivered from these things~long ago. Only
123 5 |      reference to thee,~originally from the most ancient causes
124 5 |      cuttest off anything whatever from the~conjunction and the
125 5 |            many, we~may learn even from this. For if any man should
126 5 |             For nothing hinders us from saying so,~even if the universe
127 5 |          own works. They move then from~a first principle which
128 5 |        such an~emanation must come from such things- but the man
129 5 |         and no man shall hinder me from doing what I choose; and
130 5 |          are fled~ ~ Up to Olympus from the wide-spread earth.~ ~
131 5 |            itself is an exhalation from blood. But to have good
132 6 |         and rest in it, in passing from one~social act to another
133 6 |        give it back to the element from~which thou didst first draw
134 6 |         for the praise which comes from the~many is a clapping of
135 6 |          good, pure, serious, free from affectation, a friend of~
136 6 |           thou hast~roused thyself from sleep and hast perceived
137 6 |            do not endure to depart from it? Is it not strange if~
138 6 |        perishable. All things come from thence, from that universal
139 6 |           things come from thence, from that universal ruling~power
140 6 |           they are of another kind~from that which thou dost venerate,
141 6 |   everything which~has taken place from all eternity and everything
142 6 |     advantage would~result to them from this or to the whole, which
143 6 |            below, are the same and from the same. How long then?~
144 6 |            No man will hinder thee from living according to the
145 7 |   sufficient, then either I retire from the~work and give way to
146 7 |         thou dost not yet~love men from thy heart; beneficence does
147 7 |          therefore it is both free from perturbation and~unimpeded,
148 7 |            at all. Try~to conclude from this very fact that it is
149 7 |             and~again other things from the substance of them, in
150 7 |           those which come after.~ From Plato: The man who has an
151 7 |          no evil.- Certainly not.~ From Antisthenes: It is royal
152 7 |             no violent emotion.~ ~ From Plato: But I would make
153 7 |            not something different from saving and being saved;
154 7 |            a thing to be dismissed from the thoughts: and there~
155 7 |        things as if he viewed them from some~higher place; should
156 7 |           that they should~deviate from the order of the things
157 7 |               That which has grown from the earth to the earth,~
158 7 |          But that which has sprung from heavenly seed,~ Back to
159 7 |         channel's course to 'scape from death.~ The breeze which
160 7 |            constitution is freedom from error and from deception.
161 7 |          is freedom from error and from deception. Let then the~
162 7 |          in thy power to live free from all compulsion in the~greatest
163 7 |           in the midst of all this from maintaining itself~in tranquility
164 7 |         thing for a man not to fly from his own~badness, which is
165 7 |        indeed possible, but to fly from other men's~badness, which
166 8 |         life, or at least thy life from thy youth upwards, like
167 8 |            plain that thou art far~from philosophy. Thou hast fallen
168 8 |         this? If~he has principles from which come his affects and
169 8 |         subsist?~ When thou risest from sleep with reluctance, remember
170 8 |          the source of all things, from which all that happens is~
171 8 |       others have disappeared even from fables. Remember this~then,
172 8 |         second to the divine cause~from which all things come to
173 8 |         this power~which thou hast from nature.~ Speak both in the
174 8 |         head, lying~anywhere apart from the rest of the body, such
175 8 |     happens, and~separates himself from others, or does anything
176 8 |         thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity- for thou
177 8 |         not to be separated at all from the universal; and when
178 8 |           has, so we have received from it this power~also. For
179 8 |        without turning away either from any man~or from any of the
180 8 |        away either from any man~or from any of the things which
181 8 |        thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy~opinion?
182 8 |            Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just~as
183 8 |           to do, even if it resist from mere obstinacy.~What then
184 8 |   Therefore the mind which is free from~passions is a citadel, for
185 8 |            and add nothing thyself from~within, and then nothing
186 8 |           in the~road.- Turn aside from them.- This is enough. Do
187 8 |     workshop shavings and cuttings from the things which they make.
188 8 |       again makes other new things~from these very same, so that
189 8 |         requires neither substance from~without nor wants a place
190 8 |      things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure,~wise, sober,
191 8 |           his power to be released from it, as~soon as he shall
192 9 |         for he had received powers from nature through the neglect~
193 9 |           to distinguish falsehood from truth. And~indeed he who
194 9 |          pleasure will not abstain~from injustice, and this is plainly
195 9 |        according to which it moved from a certain beginning to this
196 9 |           s happiest lot to depart from mankind without~having had
197 9 |            yet induced thee to fly~from this pestilence? For the
198 9 |           by~observing the objects from which thou art going to
199 9 |          thy~departure will be not from men who have the same principles
200 9 |       great is the trouble arising from the discordance of those~
201 9 |          though they are separated from one another, unity~in a
202 9 |           man~altogether separated from other men.~ Both man and
203 9 |             and there are produced from it~other things of the same
204 9 | Termination of activity, cessation from movement and opinion, and
205 9 |            by himself stands apart from the general agreement.~
206 9 |           and detach it~altogether from its material part, and then
207 9 |          are the same, up and down~from age to age. And either the
208 9 |           things also which result from change will continue~to
209 9 |    indolence and pride.~ Look down from above on the countless herds
210 9 |        else.~ Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect
211 9 |           to the things~which come from the external cause; and
212 9 |       thing, how short is the~time from birth to dissolution, and
213 9 |      things are now done~well, and from eternity have been done
214 9 |            the same kind, changing from this to that.~ Enough of
215 9 |          Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and
216 9 |            How shall I be released from this?~Another prays: How
217 9 |          poor flesh, shall be~free from perturbations and maintain
218 9 |            way as to have received from thy~very act all the profit.
219 10|       everything~and that it comes from the gods, that everything
220 10|           it was prepared for thee from all~eternity; and the implication
221 10|          implication of causes was from eternity spinning the~thread
222 10|          interest, and divert them~from the contrary. Now, if these
223 10|            compounded, or a change from the solid to~the earthy
224 10|            solid to~the earthy and from the airy to the aerial,
225 10|           airy part belong to thee from the time of~generation.
226 10|            before, as one may say, from the food and the air which
227 10|          several thing and freedom from~negligence; and that Equanimity
228 10|             or even~depart at once from life, not in passion, but
229 10|         the confidence which comes~from the knowledge of each several
230 10|            knows how soon, go away from among men and leave~everything
231 10|     thyself as soon as thou wakest from sleep, whether it~will make
232 10|    arrogant, or angry and scolding from their~elevated place. But
233 10|            loosed and rent asunder from social life? Is it~melted
234 10|    together~with it?~ He who flies from his master is a runaway;
235 10|        makes a child. What a thing from~such a material! Again,
236 10|         whatever thou hast learned from thy experience or from older~
237 10|     learned from thy experience or from older~history; for example,
238 10|           thou art able, take~away from him the compulsion.~ When
239 10|          he that shall hinder thee from~being good and simple? Do
240 10|         him that he~should be free from grief and fear. For example-~ ~
241 10|      breathe freely being relieved from this~schoolmaster? It is
242 10|   reflecting thus: I am going away from such a life, in which even
243 10|           soul is easily separated~from the body, such also ought
244 10|           also ought thy departure from men to be, for~nature united
245 10|            Well, I am separated as from kinsmen, not~however dragged
246 11|          reason differs not at all from the reason of justice.~
247 11|         wilt be prevented by shame from confessing it: and in~the
248 11|        moment it must be~separated from the body, and ready either
249 11|          that this readiness comes~from a man's own judgement, not
250 11|           man's own judgement, not from mere obstinacy, as with
251 11|          too~Diogenes used to take from these writers.~ But as to
252 11|           to be.~ A branch cut off from the adjacent branch must
253 11|            of necessity be cut~off from the whole tree also. So
254 11|           man when he is separated from~another man has fallen off
255 11|         another man has fallen off from the whole social community.
256 11|          own act separates~himself from his neighbour when he hates
257 11|           hates him and turns away from~him, and he does not know
258 11|          same time cut himself off~from the whole social system.
259 11|           this privilege certainly from~Zeus who framed society,
260 11|         Finally, the branch,~which from the first grew together
261 11|            able to turn thee aside from~thy proper action, so neither
262 11|        neither let them drive thee from thy~benevolent feelings
263 11|          as well as to be diverted from thy course of action and
264 11|         both are equally deserters from their post,~the man who
265 11|           the man who is alienated from~him who is by nature a kinsman
266 11|             But examine the matter from first~principles, from this:
267 11|      matter from first~principles, from this: If all things are
268 11|          even if thou dost abstain from certain~faults, still thou
269 11|          motive, thou dost abstain from such faults.~ Fifth, consider
270 11|            received them as a~gift from the Muses, and begin at
271 11|          mind is nearer~to freedom from all passion, in the same
272 11|       receive also a tenth present from the leader of~the Muses (
273 11|         art going to say comes not from the real~thoughts; for thou
274 11|      things for a man not to speak from his real thoughts. But the
275 11|            act of one who deviates from nature. And~also when the
276 11|       ashamed of him and drew back~from him when they saw him dressed
277 11|        should altogether~keep away from it; and as to avoidance (
278 12|            flowed and~been derived from himself into these bodies.
279 12|   Therefore if thou shalt separate from~thyself, that is, from thy
280 12|    separate from~thyself, that is, from thy understanding, whatever
281 12|          intellectual power exempt from the things of fate can live
282 12|         thou wilt separate, I say, from this ruling~faculty the
283 12|            time of thy death, free from~perturbations, nobly, and
284 12|            what may happen to~thee from without, consider that it
285 12|       consider what every being is from the seed to~the time of
286 12|          its receiving a soul, and from the reception of a soul~
287 12|       saved. Who then hinders thee from~casting it away?~ When thou
288 12|        body and his very soul came from the deity; forgotten this,~