And he also who is grieved or angry or afraid, + is dissatisfied because something has been or is or shall be of the things which are appointed by him who rules all things, and he is Law and assigns to every man what is fit.
This passage reflects on the dissatisfaction arising from resisting the universal order and divine law.
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All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.
And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and…
Do not then consider life a thing of any value. + For look to the immensity of time behind thee, and to the time which is before thee, another boundless space.
Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part.
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