rational social animal, just as his virtue and his vice lie not in
passivity but in activity.

17. For the stone which has been thrown up it is no evil to come down,
nor indeed any good to have been carried up (VIII. 20).

18. Penetrate inwards into men's leading principles, and thou wilt see
what judges thou art afraid of, and what kind of judges they are of
themselves.

19. All things are changing: and thou thyself art in continuous mutation
and in a manner in continuous destruction, and the whole universe too.

20. It is thy duty to leave another man's wrongful act there where it is
(VII. 29; IX. 38).

21. Termination of activity, cessation from movement and opinion, and in
a sense their death, is no evil. Turn thy thoughts now to the
consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood,
thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything
to fear? Turn thy thoughts now to thy life under thy grandfather, then to
thy life under thy mother, then to thy life under thy father; and as thou
findest many other differences and changes and terminations, ask thyself,
Is this anything to fear? In like manner, then, neither are the
termination and cessation and change of thy whole life a thing to be
afraid of.

22. Hasten [to examine] thy own ruling faculty and that of the universe
and that of thy neighbor: thy own that thou mayst make it just; and that
of the universe, that thou mayst remember of what thou art a part; and