30. Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter
into the things that are doing and the things which do them (VII. 4).

31. Adorn thyself with simplicity and modesty, and with indifference
towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind.
Follow God. The poet says that law rules all--And it is enough to
remember that law rules all.

32. About death: whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms,
or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.

33. About pain: the pain which is intolerable carries us off; but that
which lasts a long time is tolerable; and the mind maintains its own
tranquillity by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not made
worse. But the parts which are harmed by pain, let them, if they can,
give their opinion about it.

34. About fame: look at the minds [of those who seek fame], observe what
they are, and what kind of things they avoid, and what kind of things
they pursue. And consider that as the heaps of sand piled on one another
hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon
covered by those which come after.

35. From Plato: The man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all
time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think
that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said.--Such a
man then will think that death also is no evil.--Certainly not.

36. From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and to be abused.