For remembering this, inasmuch as I am a part, I shall be discontented with none of the things which are assigned to me out of the whole; for nothing is injurious to the part if it is for the advantage of the whole.
In his private writings, this passage reflects on finding contentment by understanding one's role as a part of a larger, beneficial cosmic order.
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The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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