violent or impetuous collision with the obstacles which are in its way;
nor yet fall down, but be fixed, and enlighten that which receives it.
For a body will deprive itself of the illumination, if it does not admit
it.

58. He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different
kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou
feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou
wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

59. Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with
them.

60. In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed,
both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry,
moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.

61. Enter into every man's ruling faculty; and also let every other man
enter into thine.




BOOK IX.


1. He who acts unjustly acts impiously. For since the universal nature
has made rational animals for the sake of one another to help one another
according to their deserts, but in no way to injure one another, he who
transgresses her will is clearly guilty of impiety towards the highest