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  1 1 |         and reconciled, as soon as they have shown a readiness to~
  2 1 |           station of honour, which they~seemed to desire, without
  3 1 |           some time after, because they were then still young; that
  4 2 |        thee in evil; but if indeed they do not~exist, or if they
  5 2 |           they do not~exist, or if they have no concern about human
  6 2 |           Providence? But~in truth they do exist, and they do care
  7 2 |           truth they do exist, and they do care for human things,
  8 2 |         care for human things, and they~have put all the means in
  9 2 |           there was anything evil, they would~have provided for
 10 2 |        better nor worse. Therefore they are neither~good nor evil.~
 11 2 |           and perishable, and~dead they are- all this it is the
 12 2 |       sometimes even, in~a manner, they move our pity by reason
 13 3 |      eating. And again, figs, when they are quite ripe, gape open;
 14 3 |          many other things- though they are far~from being beautiful,
 15 3 |          severally- still,~because they are consequent upon the
 16 3 |            help to adorn them, and they please the mind; so that
 17 3 |           in mind~what kind of men they are both at home and from
 18 3 |         night~and by day, and what they are, and with what men they
 19 3 |        they are, and with what men they live an impure~life. Accordingly,
 20 3 |         comes~from such men, since they are not even satisfied with
 21 3 |          these things, even though they may seem to adapt~themselves
 22 3 |         while it is in thy power.~ They know not how many things
 23 3 |            their impure~deeds when they have shut the doors. If
 24 4 |            what kind of people are they who will praise thee.~ This
 25 4 |            not touch the soul, for they are external and remain
 26 4 |     capacity for law; or whence do they come?~For as my earthly
 27 4 |          have, but look at them as they are in~truth.~ A man should
 28 4 |         very~soon; then again also they who have succeeded them,
 29 4 |           For the rest, as soon as they have breathed~out their
 30 4 |         breathed~out their breath, they are gone, and no man speaks
 31 4 |          wise, what kind~of things they avoid, and what kind they
 32 4 |          they avoid, and what kind they pursue.~ What is evil to
 33 4 |       quarrel with that with~which they are most constantly in communion,
 34 4 |           terrible~insolence as if they were immortal; and how many
 35 4 |          life. What~more then have they gained than those who have
 36 4 |         have died early? Certainly~they lie in their tombs somewhere
 37 5 |          glory. And such men, when they have a~violent affection
 38 5 |           perfect the things which they care for. But are the~acts
 39 5 |           I spoke before, for even they are misled~by a certain
 40 5 |        walls or the pyramids, that they are suitable,~when they
 41 5 |            they are suitable,~when they fit them to one another
 42 5 |        understand what I mean, for~they say, It (necessity, destiny)
 43 5 |           kind of envelopment that they have seemed to~philosophers,
 44 5 |           to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult~to understand.
 45 5 |           consider how short-lived they are and worthless, and that
 46 5 |            and worthless, and that they~may be in the possession
 47 5 |           in this~part of me which they call the ruling principle?
 48 5 |           and for their own works. They move then from~a first principle
 49 5 |            which is their own, and they make their way to the~end
 50 5 |          which word signifies that they~proceed by the right road.~
 51 5 |           belong~to a man, as man. They are not required of a man,
 52 5 |       nature promise them, nor are they the means of man's nature~
 53 5 |       because he does not~see that they have happened or because
 54 5 |         the least degree; nor~have they admission to the soul, nor
 55 5 |     admission to the soul, nor can they turn or move the soul:~but
 56 5 |          may impede my action, but they are no~impediments to my
 57 5 |       makes himself miserable? for they vex him only for a time,
 58 5 |          and their fitness; and~if they should have sustained loss
 59 5 |        these things are?- Yes; but they are objects of great concern
 60 6 |            things soon change, and they will either be reduced~to
 61 6 |           all substance is one, or they will be dispersed.~ The
 62 6 |         are these impressions, and they~reach the things themselves
 63 6 |            see what~kind of things they are. Just in the same way
 64 6 |          of all the words by which they are~exalted. For outward
 65 6 |         that is, praising all that they give and have ordered.~
 66 6 |             How strangely men act. They will not praise those who
 67 6 |           posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever~
 68 6 |        seen or ever~will see, this they set much value on. But this
 69 6 |         things trouble me not; for they are either~things without
 70 6 |         since thou hast reason and they have none,~make use of them
 71 6 |           towards human~beings, as they have reason, behave in a
 72 6 |         the same state; for either they were received among the
 73 6 |     principles of the universe, or they were alike dispersed among
 74 6 |          each letter? What then if they grow angry, wilt thou be
 75 6 |        when thou art~vexed because they do wrong. For they are certainly
 76 6 |         because they do wrong. For they are certainly moved towards~
 77 6 |       moved towards~things because they suppose them to be suitable
 78 6 |            and hast perceived that they were only~dreams which troubled
 79 6 |          their~craft- nevertheless they cling to the reason (the
 80 6 |           Do not then imagine that they are of another kind~from
 81 6 |        others without knowing what they do; as men also when they~
 82 6 |          they do; as men also when they~are asleep, of whom it is
 83 6 |             I think, who says that they~are labourers and co-operators
 84 6 |          to each of the stars, are they not different and yet they
 85 6 |         they not different and yet they work~together to the same
 86 6 |           which must~happen to me, they have determined well, for
 87 6 |          doing me harm, why~should they have any desire towards
 88 6 |           their providence? But if they have not determined about
 89 6 |  determined about me~individually, they have certainly determined
 90 6 |          content with~them. But if they determine about nothing-
 91 6 |            all these consider that they have long been in the~dust.
 92 6 |      examples of~the virtues, when they are exhibited in the morals
 93 6 |         the sick the doctor, would they~listen to anybody else;
 94 7 |        have been co-ordinated, and they combine to form the same~
 95 7 |          which exist separate, for they have~been constituted for
 96 7 |        have felt will~complain, if they choose. But I, unless I
 97 7 |          And this~happens, if when they do wrong it occurs to thee
 98 7 |       wrong it occurs to thee that they are~kinsmen, and that they
 99 7 |         they are~kinsmen, and that they do wrong through ignorance
100 7 |           then reflect how~eagerly they would have been sought,
101 7 |       harmed by pain, let them, if~they can, give their opinion
102 7 |            seek fame, observe what~they are, and what kind of things
103 7 |            and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of~
104 7 |            and what kind of~things they pursue. And consider that
105 7 |          ourselves at things,~ For they care nought about it.~ ~
106 7 |          things which will be. For they will~certainly be of like
107 7 |            it is not possible that they should~deviate from the
108 7 |           things happened, and how they were vexed, and treated
109 7 |            them: and now where are they?~Nowhere. Why then dost
110 7 |            wilt use them well, and they~will be a material for thee
111 7 |         and what ruling principles they possess. For then thou wilt~
112 7 |            towards the inhuman, as they feel towards men.~ How do
113 7 |            against~thee as much as they choose, and even if wild
114 7 |      because during so long a~time they must tolerate continually
115 7 |            continually men such as they are and so many~of them
116 7 |        them bad; and besides this, they also take care of them in
117 8 |       Gaius and Pompeius, what are they in comparison with~Diogenes
118 8 |       Heraclitus and Socrates? For they were acquainted with~things,
119 8 |        others, how many~things had they to care for, and to how
120 8 |            to how many things were they slaves?~ Consider that men
121 8 |          And these too change, and~they murmur not.~ Everything
122 8 |     inflated with~pride, where are they? For instance the sharp-witted
123 8 |          before them have had that~they might leave a successor;
124 8 |          ridiculous.~Well, suppose they did sit there, would the
125 8 |         dead were conscious, would they be pleased? And if they~
126 8 |            they be pleased? And if they~were pleased, would that
127 8 |         exactly such as these whom they cannot bear now; and both~
128 8 |     cuttings from the things which they make. And~yet they have
129 8 |           which they make. And~yet they have places into which they
130 8 |        they have places into which they can throw these shavings
131 8 |          who know not either where they are~or who they are?~ Dost
132 8 |       either where they are~or who they are?~ Dost thou wish to
133 8 |       Extensions [aktines] because they~are extended [apo tou ekteinesthai].
134 9 |        towards~both- towards these they who wish to follow nature
135 9 |             instead of saying that they happen alike to~those who
136 9 |    pestilence of animals so far as they are animals; but the other
137 9 |        pestilence of men so far as they are men.~ Do not despise
138 9 |        kind~does the same, so that they require something to keep
139 9 |        still superior, even though they are separated from one another,
140 9 |        strive to avoid this union, they are caught and~held by it,
141 9 |     persons; and for~some purposes they even help them to get health,
142 9 |        wealth, reputation;~so kind they are. And it is in thy power
143 9 |            and what kind of judges they are of~themselves.~ All
144 9 |           and~see what kind of men they are. Thou wilt discover
145 9 |        towards them,~for by nature they are friends. And the gods
146 9 |           of those things on which~they set a value.~ The periodic
147 9 |         matters political, and, as they suppose, are~playing the
148 9 |     slavery of men who groan while they pretend to obey?~Come now
149 9 |         and Demetrius of~Phalerum. They themselves shall judge whether
150 9 |     themselves shall judge whether they discovered what the~common
151 9 |     themselves accordingly. But if~they acted like tragedy heroes,
152 9 |            soon forget it, and how they who perhaps now~are praising
153 9 |            which disturb thee, for they lie entirely in thy opinion;
154 9 |            what kind of~things are they busy, and for what kind
155 9 |            what kind of reasons do they love and~honour? Imagine
156 9 |         poor souls laid bare. When~they think that they do harm
157 9 |         bare. When~they think that they do harm by their blame or
158 9 |          the gods have no power or they have power. If, then, they~
159 9 |         they have power. If, then, they~have no power, why dost
160 9 |          thou pray to them? But if they have power, why~dost thou
161 9 |           happen? for~certainly if they can co-operate with men,
162 9 |           can co-operate with men, they can co-operate for~these
163 9 |     putting on solemn looks,~as if they were doing something great,
164 10|          please them, and whatever they shall~give for the conservation
165 10|     understood in this sense, that they must undergo change. But
166 10|          the~following day, though they will be exposed in the same
167 10|     rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered,
168 10|       blame on others, are such as they~are at bed and at board,
169 10|            hast not forgotten what they do, and~what they avoid
170 10|   forgotten what they do, and~what they avoid and what they pursue,
171 10|           what they avoid and what they pursue, and how they steal
172 10|          what they pursue, and how they steal and how~they rob,
173 10|         and how they steal and how~they rob, not with hands and
174 10|            according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them
175 10|         Consider what men are when they are eating, sleeping, generating,~
176 10|       forth. Then what kind of men they are when~they are imperious
177 10|          kind of men they are when~they are imperious and arrogant,
178 10|         short time ago to how many they were slaves~and for what
179 10|       consider in what a~condition they will be.~ That is for the
180 10|    consider how all things such as they now are, in time~past also
181 10|            were; and consider that they will be the same again.
182 10|        them, and in such manner as they are formed by~nature and
183 10|            formed by~nature and as they choose. Place before thy
184 10|     yielding of the reason itself, they do not crush nor do any
185 10|           harm~of any kind; for if they did, he who felt it would
186 10|     children; and leaves, too, are they who cry~out as if they were
187 10|         are they who cry~out as if they were worthy of credit and
188 10|          pursuest all things as if they would be eternal. A little
189 10|         are attached~about it. For they are like to an axe, differing
190 10|        differing only in this that~they grow to the body. For indeed
191 11|   accomplished thus, and that even they bear them who cry out "O~
192 11|            the gardeners mean~when they say that it grows with the
193 11|         about them be at rest, and they will remain quiet, and~thou
194 11|       nature, rejoice in them, and they will be easy to thee: but
195 11|          consider what kind of men they are at table, in bed, and~
196 11| compulsions in respect of~opinions they are; and as to their acts,
197 11|           consider with what pride they~do what they do.~ Third,
198 11|            what pride they~do what they do.~ Third, that if men
199 11|        that if men do rightly what they do, we ought not to be~displeased;
200 11|           to be~displeased; but if they do not right, it is plain
201 11|            right, it is plain that they do so~involuntarily and
202 11|    Accordingly men~are pained when they are called unjust, ungrateful,
203 11|        mildness and gentleness, as they are~more agreeable to human
204 11|          human nature, so also are they more manly; and he~who possesses
205 11|          in thee,~though by nature they have an upward tendency,
206 11|        disposition of the universe they are overpowered here in
207 11|            the universal, for when they~have been fixed in any place
208 11|        fixed in any place perforce they remain there until again~
209 11| constitution of things, and indeed they are prior~to acts of justice.~
210 11|            drew back~from him when they saw him dressed thus.~ Neither
211 11|        laughed within.~ And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh
212 11|            he~must be careful that they be made with regard to circumstances,
213 11|      regard to circumstances, that~they be consistent with social
214 11|        with social interests, that they have regard to the~value
215 12|           which happen daily as if they~were something unexpected,
216 12|        things trouble thee because they may happen, and whatever
217 12|            with the divinity, when they~have once died should never
218 12|      dispute with the gods, unless they~were most excellent and
219 12|          just;- but if this is so, they would not~have allowed anything
220 12|            blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either
221 12|        involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except~
222 12|         kind: then~think where are they all now? Smoke and ash and