no way right to be offended with men, but it is thy duty to care for them
and to bear with them gently; and yet to remember that thy departure will
not be from men who have the same principles as thyself. For this is the
only thing, if there be any, which could draw us the contrary way and
attach us to life,--to be permitted to live with those who have the same
principles as ourselves. But now thou seest how great is the trouble
arising from the discordance of those who live together, so that thou
mayest say, Come quick, O death, lest perchance I, too, should forget
myself.

4. He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly
acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

5. He often acts unjustly who does not do a certain thing; not only he
who does a certain thing.

6. Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct
directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with
everything which happens--that is enough.

7. Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the
ruling faculty in its own power.

8. Among the animals which have not reason one life is distributed; but
among reasonable animals one intelligent soul is distributed: just as
there is one earth of all things which are of an earthy nature, and we
see by one light, and breathe one air, all of us that have the faculty of
vision and all that have life.

9. All things which participate in anything which is common to them all