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Speaker 1: The Encarridian by Epictetus, translated by Percy Matheson, Chapter one.
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Speaker 1: Of all existing things, some are in our power, and
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Speaker 1: others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse,
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Speaker 1: will to get, and will to avoid, and in a word,
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Speaker 1: everything which is our own doing. Things not in our
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Speaker 1: power include the body, property, reputation, office, and in a word,
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Speaker 1: everything which is not our own doing. Things in our
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Speaker 1: power are by nature free, unhindered, untrammeled. Things not in
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Speaker 1: our power are weak, servile, subject to hindrance, dependent on others.
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Speaker 1: Remember then, that if you imagine that what is naturally
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Speaker 1: slavish is free, and what is naturally in others is
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Speaker 1: your own, you will be hampered, You will mourn, you
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Speaker 1: will be put to confusion, You will blame God's inn men.
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Speaker 1: But if you think that only your own belongs to you,
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Speaker 1: and that what is in other's is indeed in others,
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Speaker 1: no one will ever put compulsion or hindrance on you.
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Speaker 1: You will blame none, You will accuse none. You will
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Speaker 1: do nothing against your will. No one will harm you.
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Speaker 1: You will have no enemy, for no harm can touch you.
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Speaker 1: Aiming then at these high matters, you must remember that
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Speaker 1: to attain them requires more than ordinary effort. You will
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Speaker 1: have to give up some things entirely and put off
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Speaker 1: others for the moment. And if you would have these also,
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Speaker 1: office and wealth, it may be that you will fail
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Speaker 1: to get them, just because your desire is set on
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Speaker 1: the former, and you will certainly fail to attain those
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Speaker 1: things which alone bring freedom and happiness. Make it your study, then,
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Speaker 1: to confront every harsh impression with the words, you are
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Speaker 1: but an impression, and not at all what you seem
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Speaker 1: to be. Then tested by those rules that you possess,
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Speaker 1: and first by this the chief test of all. Is
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Speaker 1: it concerned with what is in our power or with
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Speaker 1: what is not in our power? And if it is
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Speaker 1: concerned with what is not in our power, be ready
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Speaker 1: with the answer that it is nothing to you. Chapter two.
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Speaker 1: Remember that the will to get promises attainment of what
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Speaker 1: you will, and the will to avoid promises escape from
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Speaker 1: what you avoid. And he who fails to get what
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Speaker 1: he wills is unfortunate, and he who does not escape
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Speaker 1: what he wills to avoid is miserable. If then you
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Speaker 1: try to avoid only what is unnatural in the region
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Speaker 1: within your control, you will escape from all that you avoid.
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Speaker 1: But if you try to avoid disease or death or poverty,
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Speaker 1: you will be miserable. Therefore, let your will to avoid
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Speaker 1: have no concern with what is not in man's power.
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Speaker 1: Direct it only to things in man's power that are
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Speaker 1: contrary to nature. But for the moment you must utterly
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Speaker 1: remove the will to get. For if you will to
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Speaker 1: get something not in man's power, you are bound to
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Speaker 1: be unfortunate. While none of the things in man's power
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Speaker 1: that you could honorably will to get is yet within
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Speaker 1: your reach. Impulse to act and not to act, these
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Speaker 1: are your concern. Yet exercise them gently and without strain,
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Speaker 1: and provisionally. Three. When anything from the meanest thing upwards
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Speaker 1: is attractive, or serviceable, or an object of affection, remember
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Speaker 1: always to say to yourself, what is its nature. If
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Speaker 1: you are fond of a jug, Say you are fond
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Speaker 1: of a jug, then you will not be disturbed if
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Speaker 1: it be broken. If you kiss your child or your wife,
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Speaker 1: say to yourself that you're kissing a human being, For
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Speaker 1: then if death strikes it, you will not be disturbed.
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Speaker 1: Chapter four. When you are about to take something in hand,
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Speaker 1: remind yourself what manner of thing it is. If you
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Speaker 1: are going to bathe. Put before your mind what happens
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Speaker 1: in the bath water, pouring over, some others being jostled,
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Speaker 1: some reviling, others, stealing. And you will set to work
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Speaker 1: more securely if you say to yourself at once, I
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Speaker 1: want to bathe, and I want to keep my will
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Speaker 1: in harmony with nature. And so in each thing you do,
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Speaker 1: for in this way, if anything turns up to hinder
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Speaker 1: you in your bathing, you will be ready to say,
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Speaker 1: I did not want only to bathe, but to keep
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Speaker 1: my will in harmony with nature, and I shall not
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Speaker 1: so keep it if I lose my temper at what happens.
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Speaker 1: Chapter five. What disturbs men's minds is not events, but
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Speaker 1: their judgments on events. For instance, death is nothing dreadful,
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Speaker 1: or else Socrates would have thought it so. No, the
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Speaker 1: only dreadful thing about it is men's judgment that it
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Speaker 1: is dreadful. And so when we are hindered or disturbed
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Speaker 1: or distressed, let us never lay the blame on others,
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Speaker 1: but on ourselves, that is, on our own judgments. To
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Speaker 1: accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of
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Speaker 1: want of education. To accuse one's self shows that one's
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Speaker 1: education has begun to accuse neither one's self nor others,
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Speaker 1: shows that one's education is complete. Chapter six. Be not
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Speaker 1: elated at an excellence which is not your own. If
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Speaker 1: the horse in his pride were to say I am handsome,
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Speaker 1: we could bear with it. But when you say with pride,
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Speaker 1: I have a handsome horse, know that the good horse
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Speaker 1: is the ground of your pride. You ask, then, what
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Speaker 1: you can call your own. The answer is the way
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Speaker 1: you deal with your impressions. Therefore, when you deal with
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Speaker 1: your impressions in accord with nature, then you may be proud, indeed,
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Speaker 1: for your pride will be in a good which is
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Speaker 1: your own. Chapter seven. When you are on a voyage
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Speaker 1: and your ship is at anchorage, and you disembark to
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Speaker 1: get fresh water, you may pick up a small shellfish
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Speaker 1: or a shuffle by the way, but you must keep
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Speaker 1: your attention fixed on the ship and keep looking towards
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Speaker 1: it constantly to see if the helmsman calls you, And
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Speaker 1: if he does, you have to leave everything or be
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Speaker 1: bundled on board with your legs tied like a sheep.
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Speaker 1: So it is in life. If you have a dear
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Speaker 1: wife or child given you, they are like the shellfish
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Speaker 1: or the truffle. They are very well in their way.
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Speaker 1: Only if the helmsman call, run back to your ship.
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Speaker 1: Leave all else, and do not look behind you. And
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Speaker 1: if you are old, never go far from the ship,
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Speaker 1: so that when you are called you may not fail
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Speaker 1: to appear. Chapter eight. Ask not that events should happen
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Speaker 1: as you will, but let your will be that events
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Speaker 1: should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.
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Speaker 1: Chapter nine. Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but
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Speaker 1: not to the will, unless the will consent. Lameness is
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Speaker 1: a hindrance to the leg, but not to the will.
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Speaker 1: Say this to yourself at each event that happens, for
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Speaker 1: you shall find that though it hinders something else, it
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Speaker 1: will not hinder you. Chapter ten. When anything happens to you,
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Speaker 1: always remember to turn to yourself and ask what faculty
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Speaker 1: you have to deal with it. If you see a
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Speaker 1: beautiful boy or a beautiful woman, you will find continence
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Speaker 1: the faculty to exercise there. If trouble is laid on you,
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Speaker 1: you will find endurance. If rivalry, you will find patience.
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Speaker 1: And if you train yourself in this habit, your impressions
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Speaker 1: will not carry you away. End of chapters one through ten.
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Speaker 1: Chapter eleven. Never say of anything I lost it, but
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Speaker 1: say I gave it back. Has your child died it
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Speaker 1: was given back? Has your wife died she was given back?
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Speaker 1: Has your estate been taken from you? Was not this
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Speaker 1: also given back? But you say he who took it
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Speaker 1: from me is wicked? What does it matter to you
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Speaker 1: through whom the giver asked it back? As long as
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Speaker 1: he gives it, you take care of it, but not
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Speaker 1: as your own. Treat it as passers by treat an inn.
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Speaker 1: Chapter twelve. If you wish to make progress, abandon reasonings
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Speaker 1: of this sort. If I neglect my affairs, I shall
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Speaker 1: have nothing to live on. If I do not punish
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Speaker 1: my son, he will be wicked. For it is better
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Speaker 1: to die of hunger so that you be free from
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Speaker 1: pain and free from fear, than to live in plenty
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Speaker 1: and be troubled in mind. It is better for your
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Speaker 1: son to be wicked than for you to be miserable. Wherefore,
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Speaker 1: begin with little things. Is your drop of oil spilt?
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Speaker 1: Is your sup of wine stolen? Say to yourself, this
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Speaker 1: is the price paid for freedom com passion. This is
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Speaker 1: the price of a quiet mind. Nothing can be had
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Speaker 1: without a price. When you call your slave boy, reflect
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Speaker 1: that he may not be able to hear you, and
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Speaker 1: if he hears you, he may not be able to
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Speaker 1: do anything you want. But he is not so well
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Speaker 1: off that a rest with him to give you peace
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Speaker 1: of mind. Chapter thirteen. If you wish to make progress,
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Speaker 1: you must be content in external matters to seem a
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Speaker 1: fool and a simpleton. Do not wish men to think
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Speaker 1: you know anything. And if any should think you to
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Speaker 1: be somebody, distrust yourself. For know that it is not
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Speaker 1: easy to keep your will in accord with nature and
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Speaker 1: at the same time keep outward things. If you attend
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Speaker 1: to one, you must needs neglect the other. Chapter fourteen.
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Speaker 1: It is silly to want your children, and your wife
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Speaker 1: and your friends to live forever, for that means that
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Speaker 1: you want what is not in your control to be
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Speaker 1: in your control, and what is not your own to
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Speaker 1: be yours. In the same way, if you want your
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Speaker 1: servant to make no mistakes, you are a fool, for
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Speaker 1: you want vice not to be vice, but something different.
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Speaker 1: But if you want not to be disappointed in your
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Speaker 1: will to get, you can attain to that exercise yourself.
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Speaker 1: Then in what lies in your power. Each man's master
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Speaker 1: is the man who has authority over what he wishes
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Speaker 1: or does not wish to secure the one or to
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Speaker 1: take away the other. Let him, then, who wishes to
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Speaker 1: be free, not wish for anything or avoid anything that
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Speaker 1: depends on others or else, he is bound to be
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Speaker 1: a slave. Chapter fifteen. Remember that you must behave in
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Speaker 1: life as you would at a banquet. A dish is
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Speaker 1: handed round and comes to you. Put out your hand
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Speaker 1: and take it politely it passes you, do not stop it.
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Speaker 1: It has not reached you. Do not be impatient to
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Speaker 1: get it, but wait till your turn comes. Bear yourself
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Speaker 1: thus towards children, wife, office, wealth, and one day you
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Speaker 1: will be worthy to banquet with the gods. But if,
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Speaker 1: when there are set before you, you do not take
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Speaker 1: them but despise them, then you shall not only share
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Speaker 1: the god's banquet, but shall share their rule. For by
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Speaker 1: doing so, Diogenes and Heraclitus and men like them were
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Speaker 1: called divine and deserve the name. Chapter sixteen. When you
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Speaker 1: see a man shedding tears and sorrow for a child
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Speaker 1: abroad or dead, or for loss of property, beware that
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Speaker 1: you are not carried away by the impression that it
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Speaker 1: is outward ills that make him miserable. Keep this thought
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Speaker 1: by you. What distresses him is not the event, for
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Speaker 1: that is not to stress another, but his judgment on
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Speaker 1: the event. Therefore, do not hesitate to sympathize with him
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Speaker 1: so far as words go, and if it's so chance,
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Speaker 1: even to groan with him, but take heed that you
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Speaker 1: do not also groan in your inner being. Chapter seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Remember that you are an actor in a play, and
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Speaker 1: the playwright chooses the manner of it. If he wants
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Speaker 1: it short, it is short. If long, it is long.
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Speaker 1: If he wants you to act a poor man, you
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Speaker 1: must act the part with all your powers. And so
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Speaker 1: if your part be a cripple, or a magistrate, or
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Speaker 1: a plain man, for your business is to act the
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Speaker 1: character that has given you, and act it well. The
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Speaker 1: choice of the cast is in Other's chapter eighteen, when
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Speaker 1: a raven croaks with evil omen, Let not the impression
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Speaker 1: carry you away, but stray away. Distinguish in your own
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Speaker 1: mind and say, these importance mean nothing to me, but
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Speaker 1: only to my bit of a body, or my bit
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Speaker 1: of property, or name, or my children or my wife.
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Speaker 1: But for me, all omens are favorable. If I will,
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Speaker 1: for whatever the issue may be, it is in my
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Speaker 1: power to benefit therefrom Chapter nineteen. You can be invincible
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Speaker 1: if you never enter on a contest where victory is
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Speaker 1: not in your power. Beware, then, that when you see
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Speaker 1: a man raised to honor, or to great power or
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Speaker 1: high repute, you do not let your impression carry you away.
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Speaker 1: For if the reality of good lies in what is
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Speaker 1: in our power, there is no room for envy or jealousy,
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Speaker 1: and you will not wish to be prie to her,
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Speaker 1: or prefect or counsel, but to be free. And there
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Speaker 1: is but one way to freedom, to despise what is
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Speaker 1: not in our power. Chapter twenty. Remember that foul words
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Speaker 1: or blow and themselves are no outrage, but your judgment
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Speaker 1: that they are so. So when anyone makes you angry,
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Speaker 1: know that it is your own thought that has angered you. Wherefore,
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Speaker 1: make it your first endeavor not to let your impressions
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Speaker 1: carry you away, For if once you gain time and delay,
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Speaker 1: you will find it easier to control yourself. End of
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Speaker 1: Chapters eleven through twenty. Chapter twenty one, keep before your
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Speaker 1: eyes from day to day, death and exile, and all
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Speaker 1: things that seem terrible. By death, most of all, and
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Speaker 1: then you will never set your thoughts on what is low,
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Speaker 1: and will never desire anything beyond measure. Chapter twenty two.
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Speaker 1: If you set your desire on philosophy, you must at
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Speaker 1: once prepare to meet with ridicule and the jeers of many,
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Speaker 1: who will say, here he is again, turn philosopher. Where
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Speaker 1: has he got these proud looks? Nay, put on no
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Speaker 1: proud looks. But hold fast to what seems best to you,
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Speaker 1: and confidence that God has set you at this post.
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Speaker 1: And remember that if you abide where you are, those
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Speaker 1: who first laugh at you will one day admire you,
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Speaker 1: and that if you give way to them, you will
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Speaker 1: get doubly laughed at. Chapter twenty three. If it ever
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Speaker 1: happened to you to be diverted to things outside so
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Speaker 1: that you desire to please another, know that you have
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Speaker 1: lost your life's plan. Be content, then always to be
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Speaker 1: a philosopher. If you wish to be regarded as one, too,
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Speaker 1: show yourself that you are one, and you will be
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Speaker 1: able to achieve it. Chapter twenty four. Let not reflections
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Speaker 1: such as these afflict to you. I shall live with
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Speaker 1: honor and never be of any account, for a lack
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Speaker 1: of honor is an evil. No one but yourself can
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Speaker 1: involve you in evil any more than in shame. Is
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Speaker 1: it your business to get office or to be invited
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Speaker 1: to an entertainment? Not? Where then, is the dishonor that
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Speaker 1: you talk of? How can you be of no account
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Speaker 1: anywhere when you want to count for something in those
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Speaker 1: matters only which are in your power, where you may
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Speaker 1: achieve the highest worth. But by friends you say, well,
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Speaker 1: lack assistance. What do you mean by lack of assistance?
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Speaker 1: They will not have cash from you, and you will
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Speaker 1: not make them. Roman citizens who told you that to
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Speaker 1: do these things is in our power and not dependent
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Speaker 1: upon others. Who can give to another what is not
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Speaker 1: his to give? Get them? Then says he that we
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Speaker 1: may have them if I can get them and keep
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Speaker 1: my self, respect, honor, magnanimity, Show the way, and I
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Speaker 1: will get them. But if you call on me to
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Speaker 1: lose the good things that are mine in order that
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Speaker 1: you may win things that are not good, look how
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Speaker 1: unfair and thoughtless you are, and which do you really
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Speaker 1: prefer money or a faithful, modest friend. Therefore, help me
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Speaker 1: rather to keep these qualities, and do not expect from
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Speaker 1: me actions which will make me lose them, But my
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Speaker 1: country says he will lack assistance so far as lies
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Speaker 1: in me. Once more, I ask, what assistance do you mean?
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Speaker 1: It will not owe colonnades or baths to you? What
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Speaker 1: of that? It does not owe shoes to the blacksmith
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Speaker 1: or arms to the shoemaker. It is sufficient if each
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Speaker 1: man fulfills his own function. Would you do it no good?
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Speaker 1: If you secured to it another faithful and modest citizen. Yes, well,
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Speaker 1: then you will not be useless to it. What place
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Speaker 1: then shall I have in the city, whatever place you
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Speaker 1: can hold while you keep your character for honor and
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Speaker 1: self respect. But if you are going to lose these
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Speaker 1: qualities and trying to benefit your city, what benefit I ask,
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Speaker 1: would you have done her when you attain to the
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Speaker 1: perfection of being lost to shame and honor? Chapter twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Has someone had precedence of you at an entertainment or
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Speaker 1: a levey or been called in before you to give advice?
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Speaker 1: If these things are good, you ought to be glad
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Speaker 1: that he got them. If they are evil, do not
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Speaker 1: be angry that you do not get them yourself. Remember
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Speaker 1: that if you want to get what is not in
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Speaker 1: your power, you cannot earn the same reward as others
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Speaker 1: unless you act as they do. How is it possible
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Speaker 1: for one who does not haunt the great Man's door
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Speaker 1: to have equal shares with one who does, or one
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Speaker 1: who does not go in his train, equality with one
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Speaker 1: who does, or one who does not praise him with
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Speaker 1: one who does. You will be unjust then and insatiable
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Speaker 1: if you wish to get these privileges for nothing without
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Speaker 1: paying their price. What is the price of a lettuce
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Speaker 1: an obol? Perhaps If then a man pays his obol
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Speaker 1: and gets his lettuces, and you do not pay and
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Speaker 1: do not get them, do not think you are defrauded.
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Speaker 1: For as he has lettuces, so you have the obol
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Speaker 1: you do not give the same principle holds good too
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Speaker 1: in conduct. You were not invited to someone's entertainment because
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Speaker 1: you do not give the host the price for which
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Speaker 1: he sells his dinner. He sells it for compliments, he
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Speaker 1: sells it for attentions. Pay him the price then, if
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Speaker 1: it is to your profit. But if you wish to
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Speaker 1: get the one and yet not give up the other,
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Speaker 1: nothing can satisfy you in your folly. What you say
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Speaker 1: you have nothing instead of the dinner. Nay, you have this.
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Speaker 1: You have not praised the man you do not want
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Speaker 1: to praise. You have not had to bear with the
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Speaker 1: insults of his door step. Chapter twenty six. It is
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Speaker 1: in our power to discover the will of nature from
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Speaker 1: those matters on which we have no difference of opinion.
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Speaker 1: For instance, when another man's slave has broken the wine cup,
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Speaker 1: we are very ready to say at once such things
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Speaker 1: must happen. Know then, that when your own cup is broken,
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Speaker 1: you ought to behave in the same way as when
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Speaker 1: your neighbors was broken. Apply the same principle to higher matters.
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Speaker 1: Is another's child or wife dead not one of us,
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Speaker 1: but would say, such as the lot of man. But
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Speaker 1: when one's own dies straightway, one cries alas miserable, am I?
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Speaker 1: But we ought to remember what our feelings are when
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Speaker 1: we hear it of another Chapter twenty seven, as a
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Speaker 1: mark is not set up for men to miss it.
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Speaker 1: So there is nothing intrinsically evil in the world. Chapter
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Speaker 1: twenty eight. If anyone trusted your body to the first
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Speaker 1: man he met, you would be indignant. But yet you
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Speaker 1: trust your mind to the chance corner, and allow it
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Speaker 1: to be disturbed and confounded. If he revile you, are
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Speaker 1: you not ashamed to do so? Chapter twenty nine. In
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Speaker 1: everything you do, consider what comes first and what follows,
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Speaker 1: and so approach it. Otherwise you will come to it
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Speaker 1: with a good heart at first because you have not
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Speaker 1: reflected on any of the consequences. And afterwards, when difficulties
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Speaker 1: have appeared, you will desist to your shame. Do you
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Speaker 1: wish to win at a line, so do I, by
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Speaker 1: the gods, for it is a fine thing. But consider
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Speaker 1: the first steps to it and the consequences, and so
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Speaker 1: lay your hand to the work. You must submit to discipline,
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Speaker 1: eat to order, touch no sweets, train under compulsion at
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Speaker 1: a fixed hour, in heat and cold. Drink no cold
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Speaker 1: water nor wine except by order. You must hand yourself
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Speaker 1: over completely to your trainer, as you would to a physician.
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Speaker 1: And then when the contest comes, you must risk getting
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Speaker 1: are called on to take care of him, give way
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Speaker 1: Well have you not any natural claim to a good father? No,
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Speaker 1: You will only discover what is proper to expect from neighbor, citizen,
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Speaker 1: notion of good or evil to the latter, then as
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Speaker 1: soon as you fail to get what you will to get,
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Speaker 1: son regards as good things. Thus, polynices and ethiocles were
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Speaker 1: set at enemony with one another by thinking that a
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Speaker 1: king's throne was a good thing. That is why the
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Speaker 1: farmer and the sailor, and the merchant, and those who
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Speaker 1: is bound up with their interest. Therefore, he who makes
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Speaker 1: you come what manner of thing it is if you
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Speaker 1: in our control, it cannot be either good or evil. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: you disobey and consult the oracle. As Socrates thought, men
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Speaker 1: of events, and neither reason nor any art of man
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Speaker 1: provides opportunities for discovering what lies before you. Therefore, when
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Speaker 1: pay heed to the greater prophet Pythion Apollo, who cast
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Speaker 1: or of meats or drinks. These are topics that arise everywhere.
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Speaker 1: But above all, do not talk about men in blame
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Speaker 1: But if you should chance to be isolated amongst strangers,
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Speaker 1: nor without restraint. Refuse to take oaths altogether, if that
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Speaker 1: that if your comrade have a stain on him, he
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Speaker 1: just so much as your baar need requires, such as food, drink, clothing,
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Speaker 1: house servants. But cut down all that tends to luxury
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Speaker 1: and outward show. Avoid impurity to the utmost of your
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Speaker 1: bringing up your own chastity. If someone tells you that
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Speaker 1: to go to the games. But if you should have
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Speaker 1: vacasion to go, show that your first concern is for yourself.
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Speaker 1: That is wish that only to happen, which does happen
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Speaker 1: in him, only to win who does win? For so
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Speaker 1: you will suffer no hindrance. But refrain entirely from applause
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Speaker 1: or ridicule or prolonged excitement. And when you go away,
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Speaker 1: do not talk much of what happened there, except so
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Speaker 1: far as it tends to your improvement. For to talk
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Speaker 1: about it implies that the spectacle excited your wonder. Do
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Speaker 1: not go lightly or casually to hear lectures. But if
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Speaker 1: not make yourself offensive. When you are going to meet anyone,
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Speaker 1: and particularly some man of reputed eminence, set before your
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Speaker 1: mind the thought what would Socrates or Zeno have done?
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Speaker 1: And you will not fail to make proper use of
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Speaker 1: the occasion. When you go to visit some great man,
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Speaker 1: him in that you will be shut out, that the
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Speaker 1: doors will be slammed in your face, that he will
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Speaker 1: pay no heed to you. And if in spite of
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Speaker 1: go and bear what happens, and never say to yourself
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Speaker 1: it was not worth all this, for that shows a
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Speaker 1: vulgar mind and one at odds with outward things. In
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Speaker 1: your conversation, avoid frequent and disapportionate mention of your own
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Speaker 1: doings or adventures, for other people. Do not take the
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Speaker 1: same pleasure in hearing what has happened to you as
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Speaker 1: you take in recounting your adventures. Avoid raising men's laughter,
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Speaker 1: for it is a habit that easily slips into vulgarity,
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Speaker 1: and it may well suffice to lessen your neighbour's respect.
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Speaker 1: It is dangerous, too to lie into foul language when
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Speaker 1: anything of the kind occurs. Rebuke the offender, if the
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Speaker 1: by your silence or a blush or a frown that
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Speaker 1: you imagine some pleasure, beware that it does not carry
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Speaker 1: you away like other imaginations. Wait awhile and give yourself. Pause. Next,
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Speaker 1: yourself and set on the other side the joy and
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Speaker 1: self satisfaction you will feel if you refrain, And if
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Speaker 1: you be not overcome by the winning, sweetness and attraction
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Speaker 1: much better is the consciousness of having vanquished it? Chapter
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Speaker 1: determined that it all to be done, never avoid being
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Speaker 1: seen doing it, even if the opinion of the multitude
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Speaker 1: is going to condemn you. For if your action is wrong,
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Speaker 1: then avoid doing it altogether. But if it is right,
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Speaker 1: why do you fear those who will rebuke you wrongly?
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Speaker 1: it as night mean a great deal if taken separately,
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Speaker 1: but have no meaning if combined. In the same way,
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Speaker 1: to choose the larger portion of a banquet may be
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Speaker 1: worth while for your body, but if you want to
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Speaker 1: maintain social decencies, it is worthless. Therefore, when you are
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Speaker 1: at meet with another, remember not only to consider the
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Speaker 1: value of what is set before you for the body,
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Speaker 1: but also to maintain your self respect before your host.
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Speaker 1: Chapter thirty seven. If you try to act a part
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Speaker 1: beyond your powers, you not only disgrace yourself in it,
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Speaker 1: but you neglect the part which you could have filled
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Speaker 1: with success. Chapter thirty eight. As in walking, you take
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Speaker 1: your foot, so take care that you do not harm
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Speaker 1: your governing principle. And if we guard this in everything
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Speaker 1: thirty nine. Every man's body is a measure for his property,
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Speaker 1: as the foot is the measure for his shoe. If
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Speaker 1: you stick to this limit, you will keep the right measure.
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Speaker 1: If you go beyond it, you are bound to be
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Speaker 1: carried away down a precipice. In the end, just as
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Speaker 1: with the shoe. If once you go beyond the foot,
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Speaker 1: your shoe puts on gilding, and soon purple and embroidery.
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Speaker 1: For when once you go beyond the measure, there is
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Speaker 1: called madam by men. Wherefore, when they see that the
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Speaker 1: only advantage they have got is to be marriageable, that
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Speaker 1: begin to make themselves smart, and to set all their
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Speaker 1: your attention must be given to the mind. Chapter forty two.
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Speaker 1: is wrong, he suffers, and that he is the victim
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Speaker 1: which is true is thought to be false, it is
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Speaker 1: will be gentle to him who reviles you, saying to yourself,
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Speaker 1: Everything has two handles, one by which you can carry it,
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Speaker 1: the other by which you cannot. If your brother wrongs,
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Speaker 1: you do not take it by that handle. The handle
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Speaker 1: of is wrong, for you cannot carry it by that,
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Speaker 1: but rather by the other handle. That he is a
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Speaker 1: richer than you. Therefore I am superior to you. I
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Speaker 1: You are something more than property or speech. Forty five.
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Speaker 1: If a man washed quickly, do not say that he
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Speaker 1: drank much wine, do not say that he drinks badly,
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Speaker 1: but that he drinks much. For till you have decided
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Speaker 1: what judgment prompts him, how do you know that he
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Speaker 1: not say how one ought to eat, but eat as
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Speaker 1: wanted an introduction to philosophers, he took them to be introduced.
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Speaker 1: So patient of neglect was he. And if a discussion
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Speaker 1: arise among the multitude on some principle, keep silent for
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Speaker 1: the most part, for you are in great danger of
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Speaker 1: blurting out some undigested thought. And when some one says
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Speaker 1: to you you know nothing, and you do not let
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Speaker 1: the right road. For sheep do not bring grass to
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Speaker 1: the form of wool and milk. Do the same yourself.
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Speaker 1: do not stay on every occasion. I am a water drinker.
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Speaker 1: And if you ever want to train laboriously, keep it
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Speaker 1: to yourself, and do not make a show of it.
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Speaker 1: Do not embrace statues. If you are very thirsty, take
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Speaker 1: position and character is this he never looks to himself
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Speaker 1: if he were somebody, or as if he knew anything.
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Speaker 1: And if anyone compliments him, he laughs in himself at
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Speaker 1: his compliment. And if one blames him, he makes no defense.
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Speaker 1: He goes about like a convalescent, careful not to disturb
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Speaker 1: had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing
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Speaker 1: who interprets her. And, having heard that Chrysippus does, I
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Speaker 1: come to him. But I do not understand his writings,
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Speaker 1: So I seek an interpreter. So far there is nothing
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Speaker 1: to be proud of. But when I have found the interpreter,
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Speaker 1: it remains for me to act on his precepts. That,
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Speaker 1: and that alone is the thing to be proud of.
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Speaker 1: But if I admire the mere power of exposition, it
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Speaker 1: comes to this that I am turned into a grammarian
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Speaker 1: instead of a philosopher. Except that I interpret Chrysippus in
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Speaker 1: place of Homer. Therefore, when someone says to me, read
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Speaker 1: hold fast to them as laws which it will be
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Speaker 1: impious to transgress. But pay no heed to what anyone
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Speaker 1: says of you, for this is something beyond your own control.
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifty one. How long will you wait to think
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Speaker 1: yourself worthy of the highest and transgress in nothing the
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Speaker 1: clear pronouncement of reason? You have received the precepts which
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Speaker 1: you ought to accept, and you have accepted them. Why then,
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Speaker 1: do you still wait for a master that you may
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Speaker 1: delay the amendment of yourself till he comes? You are
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Speaker 1: a youth no longer. You are now a full grown man.
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Speaker 1: If now you are careless and indolent, and are always
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Speaker 1: putting off, fix seen one day after another as the
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Speaker 1: limit when you mean to begin attending to yourself, then
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Speaker 1: living or dying you will make no progress, but will
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Speaker 1: continue unawares in ignorance. Therefore, make up your mind before
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Speaker 1: it is too late. To live as one who is
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Speaker 1: mature and proficient, and let all that seems best to
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Speaker 1: you be a law that you cannot transgress. And if
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Speaker 1: you encounter anything troublesome or pleasant, or glorious or inglorious,
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Speaker 1: remember that the hour of struggle is come, the Olympic
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Speaker 1: contest is here, and you may put off no longer,
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Speaker 1: and that one day, in one action determines whether the
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Speaker 1: progress you have achieved is lost or maintained. This was
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Speaker 1: how Socrates attained perfection, paying heed to nothing but reason
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Speaker 1: in all that he encountered. And if you are not yet,
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Speaker 1: Socrates yet ought you to live as one who would
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Speaker 1: wish to be a Socrates, Chapter fifty two. The first
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Speaker 1: and most necessary department of philosophy deals with the application
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Speaker 1: of principles, for instance, not to lie. The second deals
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Speaker 1: with demonstrations, for instance, how comes it that one ought
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Speaker 1: not to lie? The third is concerned with establishing and
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Speaker 1: analyzing these processes, For instance, how comes it that this
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Speaker 1: is a demonstration? What is demonstration? What is consequence? What
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Speaker 1: is contradiction? What is true? What is false? It follows then,
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Speaker 1: that the third department is necessary because of the second,
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Speaker 1: and the second because of the first. The first is
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Speaker 1: the most necessary part, and that in which we must rest.
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Speaker 1: But we reverse the order. We occupy ourselves with a
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Speaker 1: third and make that our whole concern, And the first
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Speaker 1: we completely neglect. Wherefore we lie, but are ready enough
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Speaker 1: with the demonstration that lying is wrong Chapter fifty three.
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Speaker 1: On every occasion we must have these thoughts at hand.
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Speaker 1: Lead me, o Zeus, and lead me destiny whither ordain.
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Speaker 1: It is by your decree all follow, doubting not or
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Speaker 1: if with will recreant i falter i shall follow. Still Cleanthes,
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Speaker 1: who rightly, with necessity complies in things divine, we count
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Speaker 1: him skilled and wise. Euripides, Fragment nine hundred and sixty five. Well, creto.
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Speaker 1: If this be the God's will, so be it. Plato,
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Speaker 1: Credo forty three. D Anetas and Melidas have power to
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Speaker 1: put me to death, but not to harm me Plato Apology,
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Speaker 1: thirty six, end of chapters forty one through fifty three.