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man and thing.

One thing only troubles me, lest I should do something which the constitution
of man does not allow, or in the way which it does not allow, or what
it does not allow now.

Near is thy forgetfulness of all things; and near the forgetfulness
of thee by all.

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong. And this happens,
if when they do wrong it occurs to thee that they are kinsmen, and
that they do wrong through ignorance and unintentionally, and that
soon both of you will die; and above all, that the wrong-doer has
done thee no harm, for he has not made thy ruling faculty worse than
it was before.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were
wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the
material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else; and
each of these things subsists for a very short time. But it is no
hardship for the vessel to be broken up, just as there was none in
its being fastened together.

A scowling look is altogether unnatural; when it is often assumed,
the result is that all comeliness dies away, and at last is so completely
extinguished that it cannot be again lighted up at all. Try to conclude
from this very fact that it is contrary to reason. For if even the
perception of doing wrong shall depart, what reason is there for living
any longer?

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou
seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again
other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may
be ever new.

When a man has done thee any wrong, immediately consider with what
opinion about good or evil he has done wrong. For when thou hast seen
this, thou wilt pity him, and wilt neither wonder nor be angry. For
either thou thyself thinkest the same thing to be good that he does
or another thing of the same kind. It is thy duty then to pardon him.
But if thou dost not think such things to be good or evil, thou wilt
more readily be well disposed to him who is in error.

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but
of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how
eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the
same time however take care that thou dost not through being so pleased
with them accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed
if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures
tranquility.

Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine
thyself to the present. Understand well what happens either to thee
or to another. Divide and distribute every object into the causal
(formal) and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which
is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter
into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards
the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow
God. The poet says that Law rules all.- And it is enough to remember
that Law rules all.

About death: Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms,
or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.

About pain: The pain which is intolerable carries us off; but that
which lasts a long time is tolerable; and the mind maintains its own
tranquility by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not
made worse. But the parts which are harmed by pain, let them, if they
can, give their opinion about it.

About fame: Look at the minds of those who seek fame, observe what
they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things
they pursue. And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another
hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon
covered by those which come after.

From Plato: The man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all
time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to
think that human life is anything great? it is not possible, he said.-
Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.- Certainly
not.

From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and to be abused.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate
and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be
regulated and composed by itself.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things,
For they care nought about it.

To the immortal gods and us give joy.

man and thing.

One thing only troubles me, lest I should do something which the constitution

of man does not allow, or in the way which it does not allow, or what

it does not allow now.

Near is thy forgetfulness of all things; and near the forgetfulness

of thee by all.

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong. And this happens,

if when they do wrong it occurs to thee that they are kinsmen, and

that they do wrong through ignorance and unintentionally, and that

soon both of you will die; and above all, that the wrong-doer has

done thee no harm, for he has not made thy ruling faculty worse than

it was before.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were

wax, now moulds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the

material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else; and

each of these things subsists for a very short time. But it is no

hardship for the vessel to be broken up, just as there was none in

its being fastened together.

A scowling look is altogether unnatural; when it is often assumed,

the result is that all comeliness dies away, and at last is so completely

extinguished that it cannot be again lighted up at all. Try to conclude

from this very fact that it is contrary to reason. For if even the

perception of doing wrong shall depart, what reason is there for living

any longer?

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou

seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again

other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may

be ever new.

When a man has done thee any wrong, immediately consider with what

opinion about good or evil he has done wrong. For when thou hast seen

this, thou wilt pity him, and wilt neither wonder nor be angry. For

either thou thyself thinkest the same thing to be good that he does

or another thing of the same kind. It is thy duty then to pardon him.

But if thou dost not think such things to be good or evil, thou wilt

more readily be well disposed to him who is in error.

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but

of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how

eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the

same time however take care that thou dost not through being so pleased

with them accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed

if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,

that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures

tranquility.

Wipe out the imagination. Stop the pulling of the strings. Confine

thyself to the present. Understand well what happens either to thee

or to another. Divide and distribute every object into the causal

(formal) and the material. Think of thy last hour. Let the wrong which

is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter

into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty and with indifference towards

the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow

God. The poet says that Law rules all.- And it is enough to remember

that Law rules all.

About death: Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms,

or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.

About pain: The pain which is intolerable carries us off; but that

which lasts a long time is tolerable; and the mind maintains its own

tranquility by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not

made worse. But the parts which are harmed by pain, let them, if they

can, give their opinion about it.

About fame: Look at the minds of those who seek fame, observe what

they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things

they pursue. And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another

hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon

covered by those which come after.

From Plato: The man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all

time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to

think that human life is anything great? it is not possible, he said.-

Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.- Certainly

not.

From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and to be abused.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate

and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be

regulated and composed by itself.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things,

For they care nought about it.

To the immortal gods and us give joy.