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alone or with others—can aim at one thing only: what squares with those
requirements.
6. So many who were remembered already forgotten, and those who
remembered them long gone.
7. Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you
have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and you need a
comrade to pull you up? So what?
8. Forget the future. When and if it comes, you’ll have the same
resources to draw on—the same logos.
9. Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are
unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose
the world.
One world, made up of all things.
One divinity, present in them all.
One substance and one law—the logos that all rational beings share.
And one truth . . .
If this is indeed the culmination of one process, beings who share the
same birth, the same logos.
10. All substance is soon absorbed into nature, all that animates it soon
restored to the logos, all trace of them both soon covered over by time.
11. To a being with logos, an unnatural action is one that conflicts with
the logos.
12. Straight, not straightened.
13. What is rational in different beings is related, like the individual
limbs of a single being, and meant to function as a unit.
This will be clearer to you if you remind yourself: I am a single limb
(melos) of a larger body—a rational one.
Or you could say “a part” (meros)—only a letter’s difference. But then
you’re not really embracing other people. Helping them isn’t yet its own