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hardly be quoted or alluded to, but
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time accepting. The gods care for m
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orthodox Stoic doctrine endows it.
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the tenth century it reappears in a
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beside the greater bulk of Epictetu
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the so-called Historia Augusta. Bir
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of two modern novels set in the Ant
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His Meditations,” Journal of Roma
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gladiatorial combat and the brutal
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and have marked with an obelus (< .
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1. MY GRANDFATHER VERUSCharacter an
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7. RUSTICUSThe recognition that I n
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the principles we ought to live by.
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And to help others and be eager to
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His searching questions at meetings
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but sticking with the same old plac
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That I had the kind of brother I di
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All things for which “we need the
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1. When you wake up in the morning,
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yourself from all other distraction
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you to harm. And if they don’t ex
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Remember two things:i. that everyth
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dependent on anyone else’s doing
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1. Not just that every day more of
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this life. Heraclitus often told us
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Which doesn’t mean we have to sha
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—Best is what benefits me.As a ra
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households.What is it—this thing
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rutting humans, and tyrants (from P
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1. Our inward power, when it obeys
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Or is it your body? Keep in mind th
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Not an embarrassing thing. Not an o
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and honor the logos.17. Not to live
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entombed in the bodies of those nou
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29. Alien: (n.) one who doesn’t k
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oblivion covers it.And those are th
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once and already carried past us, a
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it upwithout complaint.Like an oliv
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below your quota.You don’t love y
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6. Some people, when they do someon
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case, let’s accept it—as we acc
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putting up with yourself. In such d
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recurrent cycles.14. The logos and
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alone. It takes the things before i
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keeping those feelings in their pla
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soul with skill and understanding?
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Where's the danger for the communit
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1. Nature is pliable, obedient. And
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Or suppose (ii): Reverence. Serenit
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should we value when none of them c
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your own self, well integrated into
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26. If someone asked you how to wri
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So that when your time comes, your
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other, and breathe together, and ar
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And if they make no decisions, abou
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The only thing that isn’t worthle
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less powerful than bile or a rabid
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1. Evil: the same old thing.No matt
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same resources to draw on—the sam
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conceives of them in the first plac
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everything you see and use it as ma
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long for and fear. Events like pile
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48. [Plato has it right.] If you wa
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Everything has to do what it was ma
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63. “Against our will, our souls
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keeping your mind calm—reliably s
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Through first principles. Which sho
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For overcoming pain and pleasure, y
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18. What dies doesn’t vanish. It
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dead. Some of them not remembered a
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Not to behaving with justice, self-
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38. The stench of decay. Rotting me
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degraded—miserable, tense, huddle
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the world will laugh at you, just a
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person is harmed by it—and he can
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to find himself constantly reproach
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meaningless to those you leave behi
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however much they try to avoid it,
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18. Enter their minds, and you’ll
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28. The world’s cycles never chan
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Which means: thought and action res
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That’s all there is.And the gods?
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Like that. In illness—or any othe
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censure?2. Focus on what nature dem
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transformation). If the process is
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that you’ve been—to keep being
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all he does, and nature in all that
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Or that everything was born to die.
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his takes it and goes to work, and
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That way you’ll see human life fo
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34. If you’ve immersed yourself i
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they want me gone, in hopes that it
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1. Characteristics of the rational
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But the resolution has to be the re
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8. A branch cut away from the branc
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looking at the truth, without and w
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that, even if it brings you no glor
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what else.viii. How much more damag
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And the fourth reason for self-repr
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28. Socrates dressed in a towel, th
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world that made you.No longer an al
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can conclude that it was inappropri
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If it’s an inescapable necessity,
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Desire? Feelings like that?20. To u
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and its variety from a vast height,
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And how trivial the things we want
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32. The fraction of infinity, of th
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Notes1.1 My grandfather Verus: Veru
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unintelligible phrase, which some s
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the Index of Persons). Only Camillu
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7.12 not: The transmitted text read
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8.35 We have various abilities . .
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11.22 The town mouse: Aesop, Fables
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Index of PersonsThis list covers on
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marched on Rome in 49 B.C., precipi
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IOTIMUS: Evidently an associate of
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is almost certainly a later fiction
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OMPEY: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106-
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(2), of whom he wrote a biography.
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ABOUT THE TRANSLATORGREGORY HAYS is
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