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1501 10| and arrogant, or angry and scolding from their~elevated place.
1502 7 | drowsiness, and the being scorched by heat, and the having
1503 7 | being fastened together.~ A scowling look is altogether unnatural;
1504 10| sacrificed and kicks and screams.~ Like this pig also is
1505 3 | those which~painters and sculptors show by imitation; and in
1506 4 | animal, stupid, counterfeit, scurrilous,~fraudulent, tyrannical.~
1507 1 | of the Parmularius~or the Scutarius at the gladiators' fights;
1508 6 | of the universe: all the sea a drop in~the universe;
1509 10| of~a mountain, or on the sea-shore, or wherever thou choosest
1510 4 | houses in the country, sea-shores,~and mountains; and thou
1511 12| it is good, since it~is seasonable and profitable to and congruent
1512 11| public spectacles used to set seats in~the shade for strangers,
1513 10| on~the contrary curse, or secretly blame and sneer; and leaves,
1514 1 | his usual~occupations. His secrets were not but very few and
1515 7 | does what is just,~and so secures tranquility.~ Wipe out the
1516 9 | and gold and silver, the sediments; and~garments, only bits
1517 4 | thou art thinking only of seeds which are~cast into the
1518 7 | art the thing that I was seeking; for~to me that which presents
1519 8 | sharp-witted men, either seers or men inflated with~pride,
1520 7 | the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect
1521 3 | Romans and Hellenes, and the~selections from books which thou wast
1522 8 | perfect security.- Who is this~self?- The reason.- But I am
1523 8 | faculty is invincible, when~self-collected it is satisfied with itself,
1524 1 | From Maximus I learned self-government, and not to be led aside
1525 2 | and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the
1526 8 | Repentance is a kind of self-reproof for having neglected~something
1527 3 | thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any~man, to suspect,
1528 5 | to practise tolerance and self-restraint;~but as to everything which
1529 3 | better than thy own~mind's self-satisfaction in the things which it enables
1530 8 | nature.~ Speak both in the senate and to every man, whoever
1531 4 | soul completely,~and to send thee back free from all
1532 8 | the spring never ceases sending up~potable water; and if
1533 2 | what is the nature of~all sensible things, and particularly
1534 8 | to thyself. Does pain or sensuous pleasure~affect thee? The
1535 11| on each of these things separately and all~together, and if
1536 3 | following right reason~seriously, vigorously, calmly, without
1537 6 | lodging, bed,~dress, food, servants; and how laborious and patient;
1538 3 | there is in him nothing servile, nor affected, nor too closely
1539 7 | BOOK SEVEN~ ~ WHAT is badness? It is
1540 11| are all laid out dead.~ Seventh, that it is not men's acts
1541 3 | man should examine them severally- still,~because they are
1542 1 | them pass unnoticed.~ From Sextus, a benevolent disposition,
1543 11| used to set seats in~the shade for strangers, but themselves
1544 5 | sayest, Men cannot admire the sharpness of thy wits.- Be it~so:
1545 6 | dyed with~the blood of a shell-fish: such then are these impressions,
1546 10| walls~of a city as in a shepherd's fold on a mountain.~ What
1547 12| Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour~
1548 6 | the safety of~those in the ship or the doctor the health
1549 8 | ridiculed by a carpenter~and shoemaker if thou didst find fault
1550 5 | cold water or~going without shoes; so we must understand it
1551 4 | say this of those who have~shone in a wondrous way. For the
1552 3 | voyage, thou art come to shore; get out. If~indeed to another
1553 3 | whether for a longer or a shorter~time he shall have the soul
1554 2 | now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the~
1555 10| it.~ "The earth loves the shower"; and "the solemn aether
1556 2 | with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.~ All that
1557 8 | was,~depressed, expanded, shrinking, affrighted? And what wilt
1558 4 | little knife, a flower, a~shrub?~ If souls continue to exist,
1559 3 | impure~deeds when they have shut the doors. If then everything
1560 4 | reason; he is blind, who~shuts the eyes of the understanding;
1561 10| them than in the~weaver's shuttle, and the writer's pen and
1562 4 | of infinite time on~each side of the present, and the
1563 5 | or right acts, which word signifies that they~proceed by the
1564 10| Rational was intended to signify a~discriminating attention
1565 10| is he who on his bed in silence laments the bonds~in which
1566 10| Euphrates, think of Eutychion or~Silvanus, and when thou hast seen
1567 9 | the earth; and gold and silver, the sediments; and~garments,
1568 7 | involution of the atoms, or~a similar dispersion of the unsentient
1569 5 | altogether in thy power, sincerity, gravity, endurance of~labour,
1570 11| inwards, nor~dispersed nor sinks down, but is illuminated
1571 1 | which Rusticus~wrote from Sinuessa to my mother; and with respect
1572 6 | BOOK SIX~ ~ THE substance of the
1573 11| on another man's acts.~ Sixth, consider when thou art
1574 5 | thou wilt be ashes, or a skeleton, and either a~name or not
1575 7 | death, and disputed more skilfully with the sophists, and passed
1576 3 | nor impurity, nor any sore skinned over. Nor is his~life incomplete
1577 1 | to be~ready to listen to slander.~ From Diognetus, not to
1578 9 | man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not~
1579 5 | charged with being rather~slow and dull of comprehension,
1580 8 | Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation
1581 3 | water internally and~died smeared all over with mud. And lice
1582 10| all~that can be heard and smelled. And the healthy stomach
1583 10| the healthy hearing and smelling ought to be ready to perceive
1584 11| genuine, and not an affected smile and acting a part. For what
1585 5 | suffering no harm. The house is~smoky, and I quit it. Why dost
1586 10| curse, or secretly blame and sneer; and leaves, in like~manner,
1587 8 | of thy acting justly and soberly and considerately.- But
1588 1 | populace; but he showed sobriety~in all things and firmness,
1589 10| thou hast seen Satyron the Socratic, think of either Eutyches~
1590 10| or teeth which seek for~soft things.~ There is no man
1591 2 | warfare and a~stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.
1592 7 | business to do thy duty~like a soldier in the assault on a town.
1593 1 | uttered any barbarous or~solecistic or strange-sounding expression;
1594 9 | men and their~countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied
1595 3 | groan, will not need either solitude or much~company; and, what
1596 9 | every substance which is~somewhat dry, is easily ignited,
1597 4 | they lie in their tombs somewhere at last, Cadicianus, Fabius,~
1598 9 | shall I not lose my little son? Thou thus: How shall I
1599 11| little value on pleasing song and dancing and the~pancratium,
1600 9 | if thou only observest. Sooner, then, will one find~anything
1601 2 | liver and he who will die soonest lose just the same.~For
1602 1 | not to be led~astray to sophistic emulation, nor to writing
1603 7 | more skilfully with the sophists, and passed the~night in
1604 2 | worthless, and contemptible, and sordid, and perishable, and~dead
1605 7 | eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not.
1606 4 | everything in conformity with the soundest~reason. For such a purpose
1607 11| the voice into its~several sounds, and ask thyself as to each,
1608 7 | if thou lookest to the sources of their opinions and~appetites.~
1609 3 | signified by the words stealing,~sowing, buying, keeping quiet,
1610 6 | was~able on account of his sparing diet to hold out to the
1611 6 | in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has
1612 6 | it is possible, be in the speaker's mind.~ That which is not
1613 7 | sheep,~herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs,
1614 6 | the whole, which is the special~object of their providence?
1615 6 | the uniformity make the~spectacle wearisome, so it is in the
1616 9 | and those who have been~spectators of its dissolution will
1617 3 | Heraclitus, after so many speculations on the~conflagration of
1618 1 | emulation, nor to writing on speculative~matters, nor to delivering
1619 8 | into it or filth, it will~speedily disperse them and wash them
1620 1 | such things~a man should spend liberally.~ From my governor,
1621 11| pursuing or avoiding.~ The spherical form of the soul maintains
1622 10| it and take it away?~ A spider is proud when it has caught
1623 5 | little birds, the ants, the spiders, the bees working together
1624 4 | the Fates, allowing~her to spin thy thread into whatever
1625 9 | and their sports, and poor spirits~carrying about dead bodies,
1626 12| shine without losing its splendour~until it is extinguished;
1627 3 | is baked some~parts are split at the surface, and these
1628 4 | because it is praised, or spoiled by being blamed? Is~such
1629 5 | eyes and~apply a bit of sponge and egg, or as another applies
1630 9 | little children and their sports, and poor spirits~carrying
1631 7 | earth,~ But that which has sprung from heavenly seed,~ Back
1632 5 | called honourable~thou hast spurned; and to how many ill-minded
1633 5 | us, as the workmen say of~squared stones in walls or the pyramids,
1634 12| wilt find calm, everything~stable, and a waveless bay.~ Any
1635 10| thy eyes entire dramas and stages of the same form,~whatever
1636 6 | finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to~
1637 11| there is no veil over a star.~ Consider what a man Socrates
1638 1 | who brought me up in the station of honour, which they~seemed
1639 1 | dresses, or torches and statues, and such-like show; but~
1640 8 | out of the universe. If it stays here,~it also changes here,
1641 11| not only in the matter of steady judgement and action,~but
1642 3 | are signified by the words stealing,~sowing, buying, keeping
1643 12| Lupus~in his gardens, and Stertinius at Baiae, and Tiberius at
1644 11| simplicity is~like a crooked stick. Nothing is more disgraceful
1645 5 | nature to murmur, and to be stingy, and to~flatter, and to
1646 5 | angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him~
1647 5 | things, nor~would he who stinted himself in any of them be
1648 5 | by thy rational faculty stir up his rational faculty;
1649 5 | unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics themselves they seem difficult~
1650 1 | attention, he very seldom stood in need of~the physician'
1651 5 | acts~it is not so, but thou stoppest short of what thou canst
1652 9 | infinitely varied voyagings in storms~and calms, and the differences
1653 5 | quarrelling, laughing, and then straightway weeping. But fidelity~and
1654 6 | written, wouldst thou with a straining of the voice utter~each
1655 1 | barbarous or~solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously
1656 6 | happily on its road.~ How strangely men act. They will not praise
1657 11| set seats in~the shade for strangers, but themselves sat down
1658 7 | a swaggering way in the streets- though as to this~fact one
1659 10| as the~stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own,
1660 6 | gods, kind, affectionate, strenuous in~all proper acts. Strive
1661 4 | and fighting, have~been stretched dead, reduced to ashes;
1662 9 | the mansions of the dead strikes~our eyes more clearly.~
1663 7 | mice, puppets pulled by strings-~all alike. It is thy duty
1664 6 | their~worthlessness and strip them of all the words by
1665 10| in behalf of whom I have striven so much, prayed, and~cared,
1666 3 | power of contemplation~which strives to acquire the knowledge
1667 5 | ignorance and~conceit should be stronger than wisdom.~ Things themselves
1668 4 | a womanish character, a stubborn character,~bestial, childish,
1669 4 | those who have tenaciously stuck to life. What~more then
1670 3 | with distraction; nor let studied~ornament set off thy thoughts,
1671 1 | rhetoric, poetry, and the other~studies, in which I should perhaps
1672 10| How many things without studying~nature dost thou imagine,
1673 7 | thyself and of bringing under subjection to thyself all that is thy~
1674 9 | says he, did I talk on such subjects to~those who visited me;
1675 3 | persuasions of sense,~and has submitted itself to the gods, and
1676 5 | another. Thou seest how it has~subordinated, co-ordinated and assigned
1677 4 | removed into the air after subsisting for some time are~transmuted
1678 5 | dissatisfied, if thou dost~not succeed in doing everything according
1679 4 | again also they who have succeeded them, until the whole~remembrance
1680 7 | of the activity which is successful and~proceeds according to
1681 9 | changes and of such like successions.~ It would be a man's happiest
1682 8 | that~they might leave a successor; and then, that of necessity
1683 2 | moment sent out and again sucked in.~The third then is the
1684 7 | to meet onsets~which are sudden and unexpected.~ Constantly
1685 8 | an act or a word.~ Thou sufferest this justly: for thou choosest
1686 5 | yet so as if thou wert suffering no harm. The house is~smoky,
1687 9 | was not about my~bodily sufferings, nor, says he, did I talk
1688 4 | legislating faculty~may suggest for the use of men; the
1689 1 | word, or by some other fit~suggestion.~ From Fronto I learned
1690 5 | fixed in a~manner for him suitably to his destiny. For this
1691 | sum
1692 4 | spring and the fruit in summer; for such is disease, and
1693 3 | waiting for the signal which summons him~from life, and ready
1694 11| introduced, which~gradually sunk down into a mere mimic artifice.
1695 1 | friends from all obligation to sup with him or to~attend him
1696 1 | not to be satisfied with a~superficial understanding of a book;
1697 5 | benevolence, frankness, no love of superfluity, freedom~from trifling magnanimity.
1698 4 | unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after.~
1699 6 | religious he was without superstition.~Imitate all this that thou
1700 1 | conduct; and he was neither superstitious with~respect to the gods,
1701 5 | so many years I have been supplied~with food and drink; which
1702 1 | fortune gives an abundant supply, he~used without arrogance
1703 6 | whatever I~do. But if the other supposition is true, I venerate, and
1704 10| her knowing~it? Both these suppositions, indeed, are incredible.
1705 7 | great changes of political supremacies. Thou~mayest foresee also
1706 12| flesh which envelops him, surely will~not trouble himself
1707 1 | never showed~amazement and surprise, and was never in a hurry,
1708 8 | appearances, and to take a survey of the nature of the~universe
1709 11| surrounding vacuum, and surveys its form,~and it extends
1710 4 | flattering,~obstinately arrogant, suspecting, plotting, wishing for some
1711 11| changed, and that it will sustain no harm.~ If any have offended
1712 5 | and~if they should have sustained loss in matters which are
1713 7 | and~that he walked in a swaggering way in the streets- though
1714 7 | Epictetus~has time already swallowed up? And let the same thought
1715 6 | which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for
1716 9 | devoid of reason we find swarms of bees, and~herds of cattle,
1717 6 | neither sacrifice nor pray nor~swear by them nor do anything
1718 8 | bathing appears to thee- oil, sweat, dirt, filthy water,~all
1719 1 | anything carried to the sweating~point; but he examined all
1720 12| gladiator lets fall the~sword which he uses and is killed;
1721 4 | separated and~diffused and sympathetic.~ A black character, a womanish
1722 7 | allowing his understanding to~sympathize with the affects of the
1723 11| kind of men they are at table, in bed, and~so forth: and
1724 10| but I~perceived that he tacitly condemns us.- This is what
1725 11| And show him with~gentle tact and by general principles
1726 6 | other men of acute natural talents,~great minds, lovers of
1727 4 | but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around
1728 1 | first of~Bacchius, then of Tandasis and Marcianus; and to have
1729 6 | former, why do I desire to tarry in a fortuitous~combination
1730 9 | mankind without~having had any taste of lying and hypocrisy and
1731 6 | To the jaundiced honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten
1732 4 | and speak as we have been taught.~ If any god told thee that
1733 12| If then a god or a wise~teacher should present himself to
1734 7 | and even if wild beasts tear in pieces~the members of
1735 12| himself? and so~this is like tearing his own face. Consider that
1736 7 | men.~ How do we know if Telauges was not superior in character
1737 4 | in review those who have tenaciously stuck to life. What~more
1738 11| thou wilt, receive also a tenth present from the leader
1739 12| has ceased; nor he who has terminated~this series at the proper
1740 4 | beautiful in itself, and~terminates in itself, not having praise
1741 9 | there be~movement and action terminating in this, in social acts,
1742 9 | differences and changes and~terminations, ask thyself, Is this anything
1743 9 | has especially fixed these~terms to the vine and like things,
1744 4 | power over men's lives with terrible~insolence as if they were
1745 2 | the~bait of pleasure or terrify by pain, or are noised abroad
1746 4 | retire into this little territory~of thy own, and above all
1747 3 | of oath nor of any~man's testimony. Be cheerful also, and seek
1748 1 | what he~ate, nor about the texture and colour of his clothes,
1749 1 | manner that~befits a ruler. I thank the gods for giving me such
1750 4 | nature who produced it, and thanking the~tree on which it grew.~
1751 8 | Such as bathing appears to thee- oil, sweat, dirt, filthy
1752 1 | touched~either Benedicta or Theodotus, and that, after having
1753 2 | which thou art a part.~ Theophrastus, in his comparison of bad
1754 2 | opinions. But cast away~the thirst after books, that thou mayest
1755 11| Muses (Apollo), and it is this- that to expect bad men not
1756 6 | every harmful thing, as a thorn, as mud, are after-products
1757 2 | an aim, and does anything thoughtlessly and without~considering
1758 2 | it pure from passion and thoughtlessness, and~dissatisfaction with
1759 1 | through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius,~Cato, Dion,
1760 8 | a man who curses himself thrice~every hour? Wouldst thou
1761 10| passes food down through the throat,~and then another cause
1762 8 | continuance, just like the man who throws up a ball.~What good is
1763 12| Stertinius at Baiae, and Tiberius at Capreae and~Velius Rufus (
1764 10| wilt not cease to lament till thy~mind is in such a condition
1765 6 | to reproach people, nor timid, nor suspicious, nor a~sophist;
1766 7 | sent~ We must endure, and toil without complaining.~ ~
1767 5 | to men, and to practise tolerance and self-restraint;~but
1768 6 | friendships; and~how he tolerated freedom of speech in those
1769 1 | know how he behaved to the~toll-collector at Tusculum who asked his
1770 10| hitherto been, and to be tom in pieces and defiled in
1771 4 | Certainly~they lie in their tombs somewhere at last, Cadicianus,
1772 8 | which is inscribed on the tombs- The last of~his race. Then
1773 1 | offensive affectation. He took a reasonable care~of his
1774 6 | sincerely.~ Every instrument, tool, vessel, if it does that
1775 1 | embroidered dresses, or torches and statues, and such-like
1776 4 | the thing called fame will torment thee.- See how soon~everything
1777 7 | neither violently excited nor torpid nor~playing the hypocrite.~
1778 10| Mimi, war, astonishment, torpor, slavery, will daily wipe
1779 3 | to himself out of the sum total of things, and he~makes
1780 8 | because they~are extended [apo tou ekteinesthai]. But one may
1781 1 | kind of life; that I never touched~either Benedicta or Theodotus,
1782 5 | has run, a dog when he has tracked~the game, a bee when it
1783 4 | dying,~warring, feasting, trafficking, cultivating the ground,
1784 11| constitution of man?~ At first tragedies were brought on the stage
1785 9 | common nature required, and trained themselves accordingly.
1786 6 | horse-breaker, and he who trains the dog, seek this end.
1787 4 | remove to the times of Trajan. Again, all~is the same.
1788 8 | and by being content to transfer thy efforts to~that which
1789 4 | witnessed. The universe is transformation:~life is opinion.~ If our
1790 9 | injure one~another, he who transgresses her will, is clearly guilty
1791 10| those who shall receive and transmit a man's fame to~aftertimes.
1792 4 | been extinguished as it is transmitted~through men who foolishly
1793 4 | its seminal~principle by transmutation.~ Many grains of frankincense
1794 4 | subsisting for some time are~transmuted and diffused, and assume
1795 6 | first draw it.~ Neither is transpiration, as in plants, a thing to
1796 6 | suspect him afterwards as a treacherous fellow; and yet we are on~
1797 4 | death, and~calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights
1798 5 | drink; which bears me when I tread on it and abuse it~for so
1799 4 | present, loving, heaping up treasure, desiring~counsulship, kingly
1800 7 | how they were vexed, and treated them as~strange things,
1801 9 | plants nor in stones~nor in trees. But in rational animals
1802 11| mouse, and of the alarm~and trepidation of the town mouse.~ Socrates
1803 1 | circumstances as put me to the~trial. Further, I am thankful
1804 9 | and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art~thou disturbed?
1805 5 | dissatisfied, and in a manner triest to put anything out of the
1806 2 | other way. For those too are triflers who have wearied~themselves
1807 10| seen Alciphron think of Tropaeophorus,~and when thou hast seen
1808 5 | every impression which is~troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately
1809 2 | abscess and, as it were, a tumour on the universe, so far~
1810 6 | and do not continue out of tune~longer than the compulsion
1811 4 | a philosopher without a tunic, and the other without a~
1812 12| nature to change~and be turned and to perish in order that
1813 5 | own nature less than the turner values the turning art,
1814 1 | to the~toll-collector at Tusculum who asked his pardon; and
1815 12| BOOK TWELVE~ ~ ALL those things at which
1816 9 | ignorant man or with one unacquainted with nature, is a~principle
1817 1 | mildness of temper, and unchangeable~resolution in the things
1818 8 | this~effort absolutely (unconditionally, or without any reservation),~
1819 7 | there is hardly anything unconnected with any other thing. For~
1820 2 | with a certain pain and unconscious contraction; but he who
1821 3 | him, which makes the man~uncontaminated by pleasure, unharmed by
1822 6 | speaks of.~ Does the sun undertake to do the work of the rain,
1823 5 | which leads and governs be undisturbed by~the movements in the
1824 8 | fever, or if~the wind is unfavourable.~ Remember that to change
1825 5 | of~natural incapacity and unfitness, and yet thou still remainest~
1826 8 | willed in order that my~unhappiness may not depend on another.~
1827 7 | free from perturbation and~unimpeded, if it does not disturb
1828 9 | instructed does the acts of an uninstructed man? Consider whether~thou
1829 5 | philosophers, altogether~unintelligible; nay even to the Stoics
1830 6 | renewing the~world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always
1831 3 | recollection of the bond~which unites the divine and human to
1832 8 | thyself from the natural unity- for thou wast made~by nature
1833 4 | nature of that which is universally useful has been compelled
1834 6 | whose names~are altogether unknown? One thing here is worth
1835 7 | scowling look is altogether unnatural; when it is often assumed,~
1836 1 | them or letting them pass unnoticed.~ From Sextus, a benevolent
1837 11| corn being reaped."~ The unripe grape, the ripe bunch, the
1838 1 | did not take the bath at unseasonable~hours; he was not fond of
1839 4 | For thou now rejectest~unseasonably the gift of nature, clinging
1840 7 | similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.~ ~ With food and
1841 9 | there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is~it the form of
1842 5 | kind disposition.~ Why do unskilled and ignorant souls disturb
1843 1 | was not fond of~change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in
1844 5 | which is~troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in
1845 3 | pleasure, unharmed by any pain, untouched by any~insult, feeling no
1846 2 | anything insincerely and untruly.~Fifthly, when it allows
1847 5 | themselves~in working at them unwashed and without food; but thou
1848 5 | the universe? And art thou unwilling~to do the work of a human
1849 5 | said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. For those persons
1850 2 | eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act~
1851 11| though by nature they have an upward tendency, still in obedience
1852 6 | were~present and lived with us- but if however the gods
1853 9 | each produces it. But if usage has especially fixed these~
1854 1 | reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or~solecistic
1855 3 | word~and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And
1856 11| universe, and the surrounding vacuum, and surveys its form,~and
1857 5 | values his money, or the~vainglorious man his little glory. And
1858 1 | due~deliberation; and no vainglory in those things which men
1859 10| feet, but with their most valuable~part, by means of which
1860 5 | and without food; but thou valuest thy own~own nature less
1861 6 | what remains that is worth~valuing? This in my opinion, to
1862 2 | or are noised abroad by vapoury~fame; how worthless, and
1863 9 | unintentionally, inasmuch as he~is at variance with the universal nature,
1864 9 | solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms~and
1865 5 | causes work in infinite~varieties; and there is hardly anything
1866 12| things, and observe the variety of them how great it is,~
1867 4 | deviating from it.~ He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame
1868 11| flattering men and being veied~at them, for both are unsocial
1869 11| nudity. For there is no veil over a star.~ Consider what
1870 2 | a contexture of nerves, veins, and~arteries. See the breath
1871 12| Velius Rufus (or Rufus at Velia); and in fine think of the
1872 12| Tiberius at Capreae and~Velius Rufus (or Rufus at Velia);
1873 1 | time he was most~highly venerated by those who associated
1874 2 | things from~the gods merit veneration for their excellence; and
1875 1 | despised by Maximus, or ever~venture to think himself a better
1876 6 | minds, lovers of labour, versatile, confident, mockers even
1877 6 | the mean~and ridiculous verse in the play, which Chrysippus
1878 4 | for example, the times of Vespasian. Thou wilt see all~these
1879 12| men bared of the~material vesture and rind and impurities.
1880 4 | whatever else delights fools or vexes~them.~ In the series of
1881 1 | character to rouse me to vigilance over myself,~and who, at
1882 5 | which concern society more vile in thy eyes and less worthy
1883 1 | dress came from Lorium, his villa on the~coast, and from Lanuvium
1884 7 | vexed on account of men's villainy, nor yet~making himself
1885 6 | been made; and both the vine-planter who looks after the vine,
1886 6 | stones, wood, fig-trees,~vines, olives. But those which
1887 1 | did not make proof of my virility~before the proper season,
1888 10| healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I~
1889 9 | such subjects to~those who visited me; but I continued to discourse
1890 2 | these are whose opinions and voices give~reputation; what death
1891 10| am I now using it? Is it void of~understanding? Is it
1892 4 | antiquated, Camillus, Caeso, Volesus, Leonnatus, and a little
1893 10| and that Equanimity is the voluntary acceptance of the~things
1894 12| the external circumfluent vortex whirls round, so that~the
1895 9 | and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms~and calms, and
1896 7 | joining others in their wailing, no violent emotion.~ ~
1897 9 | operations of nature. As thou now~waitest for the time when the child
1898 10| thyself as soon as thou wakest from sleep, whether it~will
1899 6 | troubled thee, now in thy waking hours look at these (the~
1900 1 | fine writing; and not to walk about in the~house in my
1901 7 | noble to refuse, and~that he walked in a swaggering way in the
1902 9 | seeing, or the feet~for walking. For as these members are
1903 8 | conversation without~method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let
1904 8 | hast had experience of many wanderings without~having found happiness
1905 1 | live in a palace without wanting either guards or~embroidered
1906 10| of a man is a man.~ Mimi, war, astonishment, torpor, slavery,
1907 4 | up children, sick, dying,~warring, feasting, trafficking,
1908 9 | meetings of people;~and in wars, treaties and armistices.
1909 8 | speedily disperse them and wash them out, and will not be
1910 3 | only that our life is daily wasting away~and a smaller part
1911 7 | refers, but in the other watch carefully~what is the thing
1912 1 | flattery; and to be ever watchful over the things~which were
1913 12| everything~stable, and a waveless bay.~ Any one activity whatever
1914 4 | promontory against which the waves continually break,~but it
1915 7 | substance, as if it were~wax, now moulds a horse, and
1916 1 | things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot
1917 6 | uniformity make the~spectacle wearisome, so it is in the whole of
1918 10| checks them than in the~weaver's shuttle, and the writer'
1919 4 | and the contexture of the web.~ Thou art a little soul
1920 5 | laughing, and then straightway weeping. But fidelity~and modesty
1921 6 | I suppose, because thou weighest only~so many litrae and
1922 8 | at and~receiving all with welcome eyes and using everything
1923 4 | relaxation.~ Either it is a well-arranged universe or a chaos huddled
1924 7 | for the general good. For whatsoever~either by myself or with
1925 11| s harvest reap like the wheat's fruitful ear.~ ~And other
1926 10| writer's pen and the driver's whip.~
1927 2 | putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine,
1928 12| external circumfluent vortex whirls round, so that~the intellectual
1929 11| said Epictetus, he should whisper to~himself, "To-morrow perchance
1930 2 | distinguishing things that are white and black.~ Though thou
1931 4 | think too of him~who forgets whither the way leads, and that
1932 6 | about nothing- which it is wicked to~believe, or if we do
1933 5 | Up to Olympus from the wide-spread earth.~ ~What then is there
1934 8 | harm, which God has not willed in order that my~unhappiness
1935 8 | all things for him~who is willing to draw it to him than the
1936 4 | source of the same kind.~ Willingly give thyself up to Clotho,
1937 8 | see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the~philosopher.~
1938 4 | arrogant, suspecting, plotting, wishing for some to die,~grumbling
1939 4 | abscess on the universe who withdraws and separates~himself from
1940 4 | changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation:~
1941 5 | admire the sharpness of thy wits.- Be it~so: but there are
1942 5 | fame, as said fitly and wittily. Go on then and ask if we~
1943 11| more disgraceful than a wolfish~friendship (false friendship).
1944 12| within thee).~ I have often wondered how it is that every man
1945 6 | purple robe some sheep's wool dyed with~the blood of a
1946 3 | value of each.~ If thou workest at that which is before
1947 8 | because thou seest in their~workshop shavings and cuttings from
1948 6 | a friend of~justice, a worshipper of the gods, kind, affectionate,
1949 11| would not perish by the worst of all ends,~that is, I
1950 6 | them bare and look at their~worthlessness and strip them of all the
1951 6 | thy head has inflicted a wound. Well, we~neither show any
1952 11| yields to anger,~both are wounded and both submit.~ But if
1953 10| who though~covered with wounds and gore, still intreat
1954 7 | of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's,~
1955 5 | the possession of a filthy wretch or a whore or a robber.~
1956 11| unable to return it.~ In the writings of the Ephesians there was
1957 7 | and above all, that the wrong-doer~has done thee no harm, for
1958 11| and greedy, and in~a word wrong-doers to their neighbours.~ Fourth,
1959 1 | the letter which Rusticus~wrote from Sinuessa to my mother;
1960 11| himself in a~skin, after Xanthippe had taken his cloak and
1961 6 | then~what Crates says of Xenocrates himself.~ Most of the things
1962 10| and when thou hast seen Xenophon think of Crito or Severus,
1963 7 | And~the second is not to yield to the persuasions of the
1964 4 | dead; and~soon not even your names will be left behind.~
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