is the thing signified.

5. Is my understanding sufficient for this or not? If it is sufficient, I
use it for the work as an instrument given by the universal nature. But
if it is not sufficient, then either I retire from the work and give way
to him who is able to do it better, unless there be some reason why I
ought not to do so; or I do it as well as I can, taking to help me the
man who with the aid of my ruling principle can do what is now fit and
useful for the general good. For whatsoever either by myself or with
another I can do, ought to be directed to this only, to that which is
useful and well suited to society.

6. How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to
oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long
been dead.

7. Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy business to do thy duty
like a soldier in the assault on a town. How then, if being lame thou
canst not mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another
it is possible?

8. Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if it
shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which now thou usest
for present things.

9. All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and
there is hardly anything unconnected with any other thing. For things
have been co-ordinated, and they combine to form the same universe
[order]. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one god who
pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, [one] common reason