of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.
8.Contemplate the formative principles (forms) of things bare of their coverings; the purposes of actions; consider what pain is, what pleasure is, and death, and fame; who is to himself the cause of his uneasiness; how no man is hindered by another; that everything is opinion.
9.In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.
10.See what things are in themselves, dividing them into matter, form and purpose.
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11.What a power man has to do nothing except what God will approve, and to accept all that God may give him.
12.With respect to that which happens conformably to nature, we ought to blame neither gods, for they do nothing wrong either voluntarily or involuntarily, nor men, for they do nothing wrong except involuntarily. Consequently we should blame nobody.
13.How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.
.yawa yrrac ton lliw ti tsael ta ecnegilletni eht rof ;esle gnihtyreve ,htaerb roop eht ,hself roop eht yawa yrrac ti tel ,yawa eeht yrrac tsepmet eht fi neve dnA .ecnegilletni gnilur niatrec a flesyht ni tsah uoht tsepmet a hcus ni taht eb ,ronrevog tuohtiw noisufnoc a si ereht fi tuB .ytinivid eht fo pleh eht fo yhtrow flesyht ekam ,detaitiporp eb ot flesti swolla hcihw ecnedivorP a si ereht fi tuB ?tsiser uoht tsod yhw ,ytissecen elbicnivni na si ereht neht fI .)VI kooB( rotcerid a tuohtiw dna esoprup a tuohtiw noisufnoc a ro ,ecnedivorP dnik a ro ,redro elbicnivni dna ytissecen lataf a si ereht rehtiE .41
?htaed yht erofeb dehsiugnitxe eb ecnarepmet dna ecitsuj dna eeht ni si hcihw hturt eht llahs dna ;dehsiugnitxe si ti litnu ruodnelps sti gnisol tuohtiw enihs pmal eht fo thgil eht seoD .51
ni eciuj raeb ot eert-gif eht evah ton dluow ohw nam eht ekil si ,gnorw od nam dab eht evah ton dluow ohw ,eh taht redisnoC .ecaf nwo sih gniraet ekil si siht os dna ?flesmih denmednoc ton sah eh taht wonk I od woh ,gnorw enod sah eh fi neve dnA ?tca lufgnorw a si siht fi wonk I od neht woH ,yas ,gnorw enod gnivah fo ecnaraeppa eht detneserp sah nam a nehW.61