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501 1 | listen to slander.~ From Diognetus, not to busy myself about
502 1 | Thrasea, Helvidius,~Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I
503 8 | poured down, and in all directions indeed it~is diffused, yet
504 6 | universal ruling~power either directly proceeding or by way of
505 12| a purpose and without a director~(Book IV). If then there
506 8 | fables,~and again others have disappeared even from fables. Remember
507 7 | Everything material soon disappears in the substance of the
508 10| thou art dying~and hast discharged thy duty. But besides these
509 6 | acts. Do everything as a disciple of Antoninus. Remember his
510 9 | trouble arising from the discordance of those~who live together,
511 5 | Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou
512 7 | of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men~should look also
513 1 | had the~faculty both of discovering and ordering, in an intelligent
514 5 | I wish thee well of thy discovery. Well then, and thou hast~
515 10| was intended to signify a~discriminating attention to every several
516 6 | the appetites, and of the~discursive movements of the thoughts,
517 3 | Hippocrates after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died.~
518 11| crooked stick. Nothing is more disgraceful than a wolfish~friendship (
519 5 | out of the way.~ Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied,
520 8 | filthy water,~all things disgusting- so is every part of life
521 4 | like a mere~enumeration of disjointed things, which has only a
522 11| opinions then, and~resolve to dismiss thy judgement about an act
523 7 | this is not a thing to be dismissed from the thoughts: and there~
524 11| intelligent part only should be disobedient and~discontented with its
525 8 | filth, it will~speedily disperse them and wash them out,
526 7 | a more noble~death, and disputed more skilfully with the
527 12| in this inquiry thou art disputing with the~diety; and we should
528 6 | and~his sweetness, and his disregard of empty fame, and his efforts
529 2 | and thoughtlessness, and~dissatisfaction with what comes from gods
530 10| associated thee. But does she now~dissolve the union? Well, I am separated
531 3 | presented to thee, so as to see distinctly what kind of a thing~it
532 9 | which he is not able now to distinguish falsehood from truth. And~
533 8 | kindness by which he has distinguished man, for he has put it in
534 2 | deprives us of the~power of distinguishing things that are white and
535 8 | familiar to us; but the~distribution of them still remains the
536 3 | else, for if thou dost once diverge and incline to~it, thou
537 10| the common interest, and divert them~from the contrary.
538 7 | either to thee or~to another. Divide and distribute every object
539 8 | line, and as it were is divided when it meets with any solid
540 11| this is an~evidence of the diviner part within thee being overpowered
541 6 | to become like the wrong~doer.~ Take pleasure in one thing
542 5 | or of a~tyrant, or of a domestic animal, or of a wild beast?~
543 6 | nor~respiration, as in domesticated animals and wild beasts,
544 1 | teachers,~as it is reported of Domitius and Athenodotus; and to
545 1 | of public~buildings, his donations to the people, and in such
546 3 | when they have shut the doors. If then everything else
547 3 | shall begin to fall into dotage, perspiration and nutrition~
548 11| do this neither with any double~meaning nor in the way of
549 12| like a mariner,~who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt
550 7 | fact one may have great doubts if it was true. But we ought
551 11| though their tendency is downward, still are~raised up and
552 10| from kinsmen, not~however dragged resisting, but without compulsion;
553 11| things are said well by the dramatic~writers, of which kind is
554 11| plan of such poetry and dramaturgy, to what end does it look!~
555 10| ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives
556 2 | belongs~to the soul is a dream and vapour, and life is
557 5 | another applies a plaster, or~drenching with water. For thus thou
558 1 | either guards or~embroidered dresses, or torches and statues,
559 11| were ashamed of him and drew back~from him when they
560 11| grape, the ripe bunch, the dried grape, all are~changes,
561 5 | been supplied~with food and drink; which bears me when I tread
562 5 | bounds both to eating and drinking, and yet thou~goest beyond
563 7 | elements.~ ~ With food and drinks and cunning magic arts~
564 11| action, so neither let them drive thee from thy~benevolent
565 9 | playing the philosopher! All drivellers. Well then, man: do what~
566 10| the writer's pen and the driver's whip.~
567 5 | long as nothing of the kind drives me out, I remain, am free,~
568 1 | about~incantations and the driving away of daemons and such
569 7 | pain, such as excessive~drowsiness, and the being scorched
570 6 | duty; and whether thou art drowsy or satisfied~with sleep;
571 9 | substance which is~somewhat dry, is easily ignited, because
572 5 | yet taking pleasure in thy dulness.~ One man, when he has done
573 1 | to observe what envy, and duplicity, and~hypocrisy are in a
574 1 | to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation~
575 6 | same time, thou~wouldst be dutiful to thy step-mother, but
576 12| and in fine think of the eager~pursuit of anything conjoined
577 7 | best, and then reflect how~eagerly they would have been sought,
578 11| like the wheat's fruitful ear.~ ~And other things of the
579 5 | abundance has not a~place to ease himself in.~ I am composed
580 10| eating, sleeping, generating,~easing themselves and so forth.
581 5 | thing, choose neither to eat nor to sleep~rather than
582 6 | meat before us and such eatables we receive the~impression,
583 4 | animals which are daily eaten~by us and the other animals.
584 5 | name; but name is sound and echo. And the things~which are
585 1 | and he showed prudence and economy in~the exhibition of the
586 3 | be done; for~this is not effected by the eyes, but by another
587 7 | parts which can feel~the effects of this fall. For those
588 10| drop the term Nature (as an efficient power), and should~speak
589 8 | diffused, yet it is not effused. For this diffusion is extension:~
590 5 | apply a bit of sponge and egg, or as another applies a
591 8 | BOOK EIGHT~ ~ THIS reflection also
592 11| robber and everything else.~ Eighth, consider how much more
593 8 | they~are extended [apo tou ekteinesthai]. But one may judge what
594 11| BOOK ELEVEN~ ~ THESE are the properties
595 1 | faculty, such as that of eloquence or knowledge of the~law
596 8 | or be removed and placed~elsewhere.~ It is satisfaction to
597 5 | is necessary that such an~emanation must come from such things-
598 3 | means all this? Thou hast embarked,~thou hast made the voyage,
599 8 | not~thy thoughts at once embrace all the various troubles
600 1 | wanting either guards or~embroidered dresses, or torches and
601 7 | their wailing, no violent emotion.~ ~ From Plato: But I would
602 5 | disposition of the soul, good emotions,~good actions.~
603 12| and~wilt make thyself like Empedocles' sphere,~ ~ All round, and
604 1 | the administration of the empire, and to be a~good manager
605 5 | this.~ About what am I now employing my own soul? On every occasion
606 6 | constitution, to which end both all~employments and arts lead. For every
607 4 | of the present, and the emptiness of applause, and the~changeableness
608 1 | led~astray to sophistic emulation, nor to writing on speculative~
609 3 | self-satisfaction in the things which it enables thee to do~according to
610 5 | complete and thy service is ended:~and how many beautiful
611 3 | leaves the stage before ending and finishing the play.
612 4 | many philosophers after endless discourses on death or~immortality;
613 11| perish by the worst of all ends,~that is, I would not receive
614 10| thy own opinion to make it endurable and tolerable, by~thinking
615 9 | made to endure.~ Thou hast endured infinite troubles through
616 5 | them, the more patiently he endures the loss,~just in the same
617 6 | against him, not however as an enemy, nor yet with~suspicion,
618 11| corresponds to fruits others enjoy- it obtains its own end,~
619 3 | about pleasure or sensual enjoyments at~all, nor has any rivalry
620 11| fruit which~it bears itself enjoys- for the fruits of plants
621 8 | fall down, but be fixed and enlighten that which receives~it.
622 12| greatest fame or misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of any kind:
623 4 | many~already, after mutual enmity, suspicion, hatred, and
624 10| And~place before thy eyes entire dramas and stages of the
625 3 | nudity, in its complete entirety, and~tell thyself its proper
626 7 | imagination? Go away, I entreat thee by~the gods, as thou
627 4 | series is not like a mere~enumeration of disjointed things, which
628 9 | soul shall fall out of this~envelope. But if thou requirest also
629 5 | Things are in such a kind of envelopment that they have seemed to~
630 11| In the writings of the Ephesians there was this precept,~
631 4 | manner view also the~other epochs of time and of whole nations,
632 5 | canst pass thy life in an equable flow of happiness, if thou~
633 9 | and art amazed that~he has erred. But most of all when thou
634 11| and calmly correctest his errors at the very time when~he
635 9 | astray; for every man who errs misses his object~and is
636 10| system,~let this first be established, that I am a part of the
637 1 | receive from~friends what are esteemed favours, without being either
638 8 | principles of Physic, of~Ethic, and of Dialectic.~ Whatever
639 8 | Demetrius the Platonist and Eudaemon, and any one else like them.~
640 7 | disturb and impede itself.~ Eudaemonia (happiness) is a good daemon,
641 6 | tyrants; besides these, Eudoxus,~Hipparchus, Archimedes,
642 10| and when thou hast seen Euphrates, think of Eutychion or~Silvanus,
643 6 | him and the gods?~ Asia, Europe are corners of the universe:
644 10| Socratic, think of either Eutyches~or Hymen, and when thou
645 10| seen Euphrates, think of Eutychion or~Silvanus, and when thou
646 6 | to relieve himself by any evacuations except at the~usual hour;
647 6 | diet to hold out to the evening, not~even requiring to relieve
648 6 | conformable to reason, and his evenness in~all things, and his piety,
649 9 | well, and consider such an event to be no small matter. For
650 7 | neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bearest in mind
651 11| anything, for this is an~evidence of the diviner part within
652 6 | not to~calumnies, and how exact an examiner of manners and
653 6 | words by which they are~exalted. For outward show is a wonderful
654 10| viewed carefully and by~examination into their nature the things
655 6 | calumnies, and how exact an examiner of manners and actions he
656 3 | appetites, and carefully examines all the impressions, and,
657 10| not~these robbers, if thou examinest their opinions?~ Acquire
658 10| from grief and fear. For example-~ ~ Leaves, some the wind
659 6 | delights so much as the examples of~the virtues, when they
660 12| gods, unless they~were most excellent and most just;- but if this
661 1 | and cannot enjoy~without excess. But to be strong enough
662 7 | the same as pain, such as excessive~drowsiness, and the being
663 3 | manner, and in a peculiar way excite a desire for~eating. And
664 11| be~present to thee in the excitement of anger, that to be moved
665 11| down anywhere.~ Socrates excused himself to Perdiccas for
666 10| say it, and do not make~excuses that thou art hindered.
667 1 | without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he~
668 12| that~the intellectual power exempt from the things of fate
669 10| contemplative faculty is exercised, and the confidence which
670 8 | own, the activity which is exerted according to~thy own movement
671 5 | not at all~for action or exertion? Dost thou not see the little
672 5 | love their several arts exhaust themselves~in working at
673 1 | prudence and economy in~the exhibition of the public spectacles
674 4 | dost thou wish?~ Thou hast existed as a part. Thou shalt disappear
675 8 | than it was,~depressed, expanded, shrinking, affrighted?
676 3 | if thou holdest to this,~expecting nothing, fearing nothing,
677 11| wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility.~
678 1 | be a~good manager of the expenditure, and patiently to endure
679 10| day, though they will be exposed in the same state to the~
680 1 | experience and his skill in expounding philosophical principles
681 11| said Epictetus, "which~expresses any work of nature; or if
682 9 | aught of themselves, nor expressing any judgement. What is it,~
683 11| surveys its form,~and it extends itself into the infinity
684 8 | Accordingly its rays are called Extensions [aktines] because they~are
685 12| dwelling and fame and~such like externals and show.~ The things are
686 9 | imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the~ruling
687 1 | tired of them, nor yet to be~extravagant in his affection; and to
688 9 | And he who~dies at the extremest old age will be brought
689 2 | like feet, like hands,~like eyelids, like the rows of the upper
690 10| Place before thy eyes this facility with~which the reason will
691 10| thou dost fail, let thy failure be in attempting this. He
692 6 | pig; and again, that this Falernian is only a~little grape juice,
693 10| shalt~perceive that thou fallest out of them and dost not
694 5 | I daily draw it in, and falling upon that earth out of~which
695 2 | without purpose, nor yet falsely and with hypocrisy, not~
696 4 | names of those who were famed of old, are now in a manner~
697 1 | disposition, and the example of a family~governed in a fatherly manner,
698 7 | thy~power continuously to fan these thoughts into a flame.
699 6 | co-operate after different fashions: and even~those co-operate
700 7 | ruling principle holding fast to these things go straight
701 4 | corporeal things will still fasten upon thee.- Consider then
702 7 | there was none in its~being fastened together.~ A scowling look
703 12| life.~ Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible
704 4 | up to Clotho, one of the Fates, allowing~her to spin thy
705 1 | of a family~governed in a fatherly manner, and the idea of
706 1 | grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and~not in a reproachful
707 8 | Epitynchanus died. Antoninus saw Faustina die, and then Antoninus~
708 1 | friends what are esteemed favours, without being either humbled
709 9 | of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any
710 4 | children, sick, dying,~warring, feasting, trafficking, cultivating
711 7 | various nations of barbarians,~feasts, lamentations, markets,
712 12| time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.~ Contemplate
713 11| thee from thy~benevolent feelings towards them, but be on
714 6 | afterwards as a treacherous fellow; and yet we are on~our guard
715 3 | according to the natural law of fellowship with~benevolence and justice.
716 8 | surprised, if a man has a fever, or if~the wind is unfavourable.~
717 5 | Zeus, down on the~ploughed fields of the Athenians and on
718 11| abstain from such faults.~ Fifth, consider that thou dost
719 2 | insincerely and untruly.~Fifthly, when it allows any act
720 6 | organization, such as stones, wood, fig-trees,~vines, olives. But those
721 3 | insult, feeling no wrong, a fighter in the noblest fight, one
722 10| like those half-devoured fighters with wild beasts, who though~
723 11| of the soul maintains its figure, when it is~neither extended
724 3 | making use of ourselves, and filling~up the measure of our duty,
725 6 | thee to go~on thy way and finish that which is set before
726 2 | sufficient. But thine is nearly finished, though thy soul~reverences
727 3 | stage before ending and finishing the play. Besides,~there
728 4 | constitution, and to hold firmly to~this and to be content
729 7 | dogs, a bit of~bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and
730 5 | luxury and fame, as said fitly and wittily. Go on then
731 11| the man who is subject to fits of passion and~discontent.
732 5 | BOOK FIVE~ ~ IN THE morning when thou
733 10| that they wish not to be flattered, but wish~all reasonable
734 5 | and justice and truth are fled~ ~ Up to Olympus from the
735 1 | a sophist or a home-bred flippant slave or a pedant; but~every
736 11| them, as a ram over the~flock or a bull over the herd.
737 12| intelligence only which has flowed and~been derived from himself
738 3 | without either~pursuing or flying from death; but whether
739 3 | lion's eyebrows, and the foam which flows from~the mouth
740 10| city as in a shepherd's fold on a mountain.~ What is
741 5 | and to how many ill-minded folks thou hast shown~a kind disposition.~
742 8 | chance) or~the gods? Both are foolish. Thou must blame nobody.
743 4 | transmitted~through men who foolishly admire and perish. But suppose
744 11| be plainly written on the forehead. Such as a man's~character
745 7 | these agitations which are foreign to nature, to~those who
746 10| casts them down; then~the forest produces other leaves in
747 6 | imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm,
748 3 | sick and died.~The Chaldaei foretold the deaths of many, and
749 4 | And think too of him~who forgets whither the way leads, and
750 1 | beneficence,~and was ready to forgive, and was free from all falsehood;
751 12| matter.~ Contemplate the formative principles (forms) of things
752 4 | fit.~ The words which were formerly familiar are now antiquated:
753 12| misfortunes or enmities or fortunes of any kind: then~think
754 5 | went away, asked back his foster-child's top,~remembering that
755 9 | thing.~ Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy
756 2 | by pleasure or by pain. Fourthly, when~it plays a part, and
757 11| certainly from~Zeus who framed society, for it is in our
758 4 | transmutation.~ Many grains of frankincense on the same altar: one falls
759 5 | few things, benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity,
760 4 | counterfeit, scurrilous,~fraudulent, tyrannical.~ If he is a
761 4 | reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and
762 1 | that I received clear and frequent~impressions about living
763 1 | great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools,~and to have
764 11| We must not chale and fret at that which happens.~ ~
765 7 | burden-carrying,~runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled
766 1 | other fit~suggestion.~ From Fronto I learned to observe what
767 6 | Aesculapius~the work of the Fruit-bearer (the earth)? And how is
768 11| harvest reap like the wheat's fruitful ear.~ ~And other things
769 4 | principles be brief and fundamental, which, as soon as thou
770 7 | universal substance as through a furious torrent all~bodies are carried,
771 5 | through being~defectively furnished by nature to murmur, and
772 5 | is a~hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which
773 4 | stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.~
774 9 | to mingle with and to be fused with that which is akin
775 9 | opinion; and thou~wilt then gain for thyself ample space
776 4 | What~more then have they gained than those who have died
777 8 | with God?~ Alexander and Gaius and Pompeius, what are they
778 5 | when he has tracked~the game, a bee when it has made
779 1 | of the blue party~at the games in the Circus, nor a partizan
780 3 | when they are quite ripe, gape open; and in~the ripe olives
781 11| something like what the gardeners mean~when they say that
782 12| and Lucius Lupus~in his gardens, and Stertinius at Baiae,
783 9 | silver, the sediments; and~garments, only bits of hair; and
784 1 | of anything else; and he gave them his help, that~each
785 6 | former days, and so many~generals after them, and tyrants;
786 10| by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.~
787 10| just and beautiful, which generates and holds together all things,
788 10| they are eating, sleeping, generating,~easing themselves and so
789 4 | and him who lives three generations?~ Always run to the short
790 11| are comprehended under the generic term of~contentment with
791 6 | make use of them with a generous and liberal spirit. But
792 11| is invincible, if it be~genuine, and not an affected smile
793 9 | his constitution, and he gets what is his own.~
794 1 | against bloodspitting and~giddiness...; and that, when I had
795 10| to time, the turning of a gimlet.~ Look at everything that
796 1 | or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights; from him too I
797 12| time also shouldst see at a glance how great is the~number
798 8 | remains fixed and does not glide or fall off. Such then ought
799 5 | vainglorious man his little glory. And such men, when they
800 10| covered with wounds and gore, still intreat to be kept
801 7 | it, nor does it make the governing intelligence worse,~for
802 11| comedy was introduced, which~gradually sunk down into a mere mimic
803 10| things as to substance are a grain of~a fig, and as to time,
804 4 | by transmutation.~ Many grains of frankincense on the same
805 1 | ostentation.~ From Alexander the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding,
806 6 | are after-products of the~grand and beautiful. Do not then
807 1 | indebted for having good grandfathers, good~parents, a good sister,
808 1 | Among the Quadi at the Granua.~
809 10| has attended thee to thy~grave another soon will lament.~
810 1 | habits of the rich.~ From my great-grandfather, not to have frequented
811 5 | again, and be content if the~greater part of what thou doest
812 1 | the kind belongs to the Grecian discipline.~ From Rusticus
813 11| unjust, ungrateful, and greedy, and in~a word wrong-doers
814 11| are formed by~nature to be gregarious. And thou must do this neither
815 9 | have teeth and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, and
816 11| as if it were~something grievous, and thy anger is gone.
817 10| things~which it is formed to grind. And accordingly the healthy
818 6 | Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to~
819 11| part, the~body, and to its gross pleasures.~ Thy aerial part
820 4 | trafficking, cultivating the ground, flattering,~obstinately
821 10| the wind scatters on the ground-~ So is the race of men.~ ~
822 11| mean~when they say that it grows with the rest of the tree,
823 4 | wishing for some to die,~grumbling about the present, loving,
824 1 | palace without wanting either guards or~embroidered dresses,
825 5 | man for his guardian and guide, a portion of himself.~And
826 3 | have the intelligence that guides to the~things which appear
827 6 | like antagonists in the gymnasium. For it~is in our power,
828 6 | by thyself too.~ In the gymnastic exercises suppose that a
829 1 | living, far removed from the habits of the rich.~ From my great-grandfather,
830 5 | better man.~ Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will
831 9 | and~garments, only bits of hair; and purple dye, blood;
832 9 | teeth and beard and grey hairs, and to beget, and to be~
833 4 | a~book: here is another half naked: Bread I have not,
834 10| his life,~and like those half-devoured fighters with wild beasts,
835 6 | Dost thou not see how the handicraftsmen accommodate themselves up~
836 7 | neither new nor difficult to~handle, but usual and apt matter
837 4 | ten thousand years. Death~hangs over thee. While thou livest,
838 11| as this in which thou now~happenest to be.~ A branch cut off
839 10| vexed as if something were happening contrary to nature, particularly~
840 9 | contentment with everything which happens- that is enough.~ Wipe out
841 9 | successions.~ It would be a man's happiest lot to depart from mankind
842 2 | soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and~fame a thing
843 7 | short time. But it is no~hardship for the vessel to be broken
844 10| when he~has caught a poor hare, and another when he has
845 4 | harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O~Universe. Nothing
846 4 | things are~arranged together harmoniously, so the things which come
847 4 | understanding.~ Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious
848 11| happens.~ ~And~ ~ Life's harvest reap like the wheat's fruitful
849 1 | understanding of a book; nor hastily to give my assent~to those
850 3 | faculty promises freedom from hasty~judgement, and friendship
851 5 | daemon wishes, which Zeus hath~given to every man for his
852 1 | and after his paroxysms of~headache he came immediately fresh
853 4 | itself the matter which is heaped on~it, and consumes it,
854 4 | about the present, loving, heaping up treasure, desiring~counsulship,
855 7 | And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on~one another
856 8 | Let no man any longer hear thee finding fault with
857 1 | philosophy; and to have been a hearer, first of~Bacchius, then
858 10| diseased eye.~And the healthy hearing and smelling ought to be
859 7 | and the being scorched by heat, and the having no~appetite.
860 7 | death.~ The breeze which heaven has sent~ We must endure,
861 4 | entirely~dead, so to speak, Helice and Pompeii and Herculaneum,
862 3 | of the ancient Romans and Hellenes, and the~selections from
863 7 | dead.~ Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy business
864 1 | learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius,~Cato, Dion, Brutus; and
865 4 | Helice and Pompeii and Herculaneum, and others~innumerable.
866 4 | be content with it. And herein it is necessary to remember~
867 3 | according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word~and
868 7 | sand piled on~one another hide the former sands, so in
869 3 | blame, nothing which seeks a hiding-place.~ Reverence the faculty
870 6 | besides these, Eudoxus,~Hipparchus, Archimedes, and other men
871 3 | with nature and her works.~ Hippocrates after curing many diseases
872 3 | back immediately; if thou holdest to this,~expecting nothing,
873 7 | then the~ruling principle holding fast to these things go
874 1 | was~either a sophist or a home-bred flippant slave or a pedant;
875 11| of lovers. The man~who is honest and good ought to be exactly
876 11| endurance, but nobly and honestly, like the great~Phocion,
877 1 | affairs. Besides~this, he honoured those who were true philosophers,
878 2 | have the opportunity of honouring thyself. Every man's~life
879 1 | those things which men call honours;~and a love of labour and
880 10| themselves wish me to depart, hoping perchance to get some~little
881 6 | after the vine, and~the horse-breaker, and he who trains the dog,
882 5 | Aesculapius~prescribed to this man horse-exercise, or bathing in cold water
883 1 | nor to delivering little hortatory orations, nor to showing~
884 6 | with God or standing in a hostile attitude to~man.~ We are
885 4 | element, and that which is hot~and fiery from some peculiar
886 8 | well? By forming thyself hourly to freedom conjoined with~
887 4 | well-arranged universe or a chaos huddled together,~but still a universe.
888 1 | favours, without being either humbled by~them or letting them
889 1 | had also the art of being~humorous in an agreeable way.~ In
890 1 | the gods~that I was not hurried into any offence against
891 4 | without suspicion of being hurt by external things,~nor
892 10| think of either Eutyches~or Hymen, and when thou hast seen
893 4 | a man might give on the hypothesis of souls continuing to~exist.
894 7 | towards~the gods, neither idly vexed on account of men'
895 9 | somewhat dry, is easily ignited, because there is less mingled
896 9 | which is a hindrance to ignition. Accordingly then~everything
897 8 | with respect to fame and~ignominy, death and life, he has
898 9 | know whether he~has acted ignorantly or with knowledge, and that
899 5 | spurned; and to how many ill-minded folks thou hast shown~a
900 6 | with sleep; and whether ill-spoken of or praised; and whether
901 9 | to dissolution, and the illimitable time before~birth as well
902 11| dispersed nor sinks down, but is illuminated by light, by which it~sees
903 8 | will deprive itself of the illumination, if it does not~admit it.~
904 3 | disturb it by a crowd of images, but~to preserve it tranquil,
905 8 | ascends so high.~ Wipe out thy imaginations by often saying to thyself:
906 3 | for the general interest, imagining what another says,~or does,
907 3 | painters and sculptors show by imitation; and in an old woman and
908 4 | any value. For look to the immensity of~time behind thee, and
909 4 | endless discourses on death or~immortality; how many heroes after killing
910 9 | be~neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect
911 8 | else also is equally an impediment and an~evil to the constitution
912 11| perchance these~judgements have imperceptibly got admission to our minds,
913 10| men they are when~they are imperious and arrogant, or angry and
914 8 | should make no~violent or impetuous collision with the obstacles
915 1 | in him nothing harsh, nor implacable, nor~violent, nor, as one
916 10| thy~mother brought forth implicates thee very much with that
917 10| from all~eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity
918 6 | thou didst not desire to do~impossibilities. What then didst thou desire?-
919 11| expects this desires an impossibility.~But to allow men to behave
920 1 | than of a man who had been improved. I observed, too, that no~
921 1 | that my character required~improvement and discipline; and from
922 2 | other~is moved by his own impulse to do wrong, being carried
923 12| material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual~
924 3 | find no~corrupt matter, nor impurity, nor any sore skinned over.
925 10| anything, either animate or inanimate, for the~enjoyment of pleasures?
926 1 | miracle-workers and jugglers about~incantations and the driving away of
927 5 | is no excuse of~natural incapacity and unfitness, and yet thou
928 3 | thou dost once diverge and incline to~it, thou wilt no longer
929 10| downwards, as a cylinder down an inclined surface,~and seek for nothing
930 3 | time he shall have the soul inclosed in the body, he cares not
931 10| contemplating thyself never include the~vessel which surrounds
932 4 | prudent, secure against inconsiderate opinions and~falsehood;
933 3 | ruling part any~opinion inconsistent with nature and the constitution
934 9 | and to grow old, and to increase and to reach maturity, and
935 10| suppositions, indeed, are incredible. But if a man~should even
936 7 | simplicity and modesty and with indifference~towards the things which
937 2 | good~and evil should happen indiscriminately to the good and the bad.
938 9 | philosophy. Draw me not aside~to indolence and pride.~ Look down from
939 9 | and has not experience yet induced thee to fly~from this pestilence?
940 9 | canst not, remember that indulgence is given to thee for this~
941 9 | And the gods, too, are indulgent to such persons; and for~
942 12| the left hand, which is ineffectual for all~other things for
943 8 | refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has~not seen
944 5 | those who looked after thy infancy, to thy~friends, kinsfolk,
945 3 | thousands of cavalry and infantry, themselves too at last~
946 12| bear juice in the figs and infants to cry and the horse to~
947 9 | countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms~
948 8 | men, either seers or men inflated with~pride, where are they?
949 6 | dashing against thy head has inflicted a wound. Well, we~neither
950 11| after being cut off is~then ingrafted, for this is something like
951 7 | not to feel towards the inhuman, as they feel towards men.~
952 9 | deserts, but in no way to injure one~another, he who transgresses
953 4 | Herculaneum, and others~innumerable. Add to the reckoning all
954 8 | Pompeii; and that which is inscribed on the tombs- The last of~
955 8 | also.~ Turn it (the body) inside out, and see what kind of
956 3 | have a feeling and deeper insight with respect to the things~
957 11| another.~ How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined
958 2 | and does or says anything insincerely and untruly.~Fifthly, when
959 1 | their~gifts, and help, and inspirations, nothing hindered me from~
960 10| food and the air which is~inspired. This, then, which has received
961 9 | nature~employs them equally, instead of saying that they happen
962 1 | acted conformably to the institutions of his country, without~
963 10| If a man is mistaken, instruct him kindly and show him
964 1 | not peevish in giving his instruction;~and to have had before
965 1 | almost say, their direct instructions; that my~body has held out
966 3 | any pain, untouched by any~insult, feeling no wrong, a fighter
967 8 | than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the~way?-
968 5 | very continuance. For the integrity of the~whole is mutilated,
969 11| movement towards injustice and intemperance and to anger and grief and~
970 2 | seems to be in a manner~more intemperate and more womanish in his
971 10| that the term Rational was intended to signify a~discriminating
972 5 | actor nor whore...~ As thou intendest to live when thou art gone
973 8 | which stands in the way and intercepts the air beyond; but there
974 1 | himself to all, so that intercourse with him was~more agreeable
975 11| only assumed it. For the interior parts~ought to be such,
976 9 | things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there
977 3 | universe, was filled with water internally and~died smeared all over
978 2 | from nature or without an interweaving~and involution with the
979 8 | sister,~Agrippa, kinsmen, intimates, friends, Areius, Maecenas,
980 10| with wounds and gore, still intreat to be kept to the~following
981 1 | expression; but dexterously to~introduce the very expression which
982 7 | these matters a man must intrust~them to the deity and believe
983 4 | of life like one who has~intrusted to the gods with his whole
984 2 | of, for~the gods will not involve thee in evil; but if indeed
985 8 | let there be in thy soul~inward contention nor external
986 8 | impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse,~
987 12| be~neglected unjustly and irrationally.~ Practise thyself even
988 7 | compact, and to show no irregularity either~in motion or attitude.
989 12| character? If then thou art irritable, cure this~man's disposition.~
990 9 | those against whom thou art irritated~has done anything by which
991 10| wast removed to certain islands of the Happy. But if thou
992 8 | body say what it~thinks of it- or to the soul; but it is
993 12| without a director~(Book IV). If then there is an invincible
994 4 | is not~praised? Or gold, ivory, purple, a lyre, a little
995 6 | necessity thou must~be envious, jealous, and suspicious of those
996 4 | conformably to~nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive
997 7 | immortal gods and us give joy.~ ~ Life must be reaped
998 12| All round, and in its joyous rest reposing;~ ~and if
999 5 | nature~judges to be good, be judged by thee to be of the same
1000 1 | said by miracle-workers and jugglers about~incantations and the
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