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that intermingling. But however much they try to avoid it, there’s no
escaping. Nature is stronger. As you can see if you look closely.
Concrete objects can pull free of the earth more easily than humans can
escape humanity.
10. Humanity, divinity, and the world: all of them bearing fruit. Each
fruitful in its season. Normally we limit the word to vines and other plants.
Unnecessarily. The fruit of the logos nourishes both us and it. And other
things spring from it too—of the same species as the logos itself.
11. Convince them not to.
If you can.
And if not, remember: the capacity for patience was given us for a
reason. The gods are patient with them too, and even help them to concrete
things: health, money, fame. . . . Such is the gods’ goodness.
And yours, too, if you wanted. What’s stopping you?
12. Work:
Not to rouse pity, not to win sympathy or admiration. Only this:
Activity.
Stillness.
As the logos of the state requires.
13. Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was
within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.
14. Known by long experience, limited in life span, debased in
substance—all of it.
Now as then, in the time of those we buried.
15. Things wait outside us, hover at the door. They keep to themselves.
Ask them who they are and they don’t know, they can give no account of
themselves.
What accounts for them?
The mind does.
16. Not being done to, but doing—the source of good and bad for
rational and political beings. Where their own goodness and badness is