But every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of rational beings, just as among irrational things the inferior for the sake of the superior, but the rational for the sake of one another.
From his personal reflections, this passage discusses the natural order and the purpose of rational beings in relation to each other.
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For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.
Further, he was not fond of change nor unsteady, but he loved to stay in the same places, and to employ himself about the same things; and after his paroxysms of headache he came immediately fresh and vigorous to his usual occupations.
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