BOOK I

. O my soul, the time I trust will be, when thou shalt be good, simple, II. As one who is altogether governed by nature, let it be thy care to III. Whatsoever doth happen unto thee, thou art naturally by thy natural IV. Him that offends, to teach with love and meek ness, and to show him V. Whatsoever it be that happens unto thee, it is that which from all VI. Either with Epicurus, we must fondly imagine the atoms to be the VII. All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained VIII. Now that thou hast taken these names upon thee of good, modest, IX. Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes X. As the spider, when it hath caught the fly that it hunted after, is XI. To find out, and set to thyself some certain way and method of XII. He hath got loose from the bonds of his body, and perceiving that XIII. What use is there of suspicion at all? or, why should thoughts XIV. What is that that is slow, and yet quick? merry, and yet grave? He XV. In the morning as soon as thou art awaked, when thy judgment, before XVI. Give what thou wilt, and take away what thou wilt, saith he that is XVII. So live as indifferent to the world and all worldly objects, as XVIII. Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are XIX. Ever to represent unto thyself; and to set before thee, both the XX. Consider them through all actions and occupations, of their lives: XXI. That is best for every one, that the common nature of all doth send XXII. The earth, saith the poet, doth often long after the rain. So is XXIII. Either thou dost Continue in this kind of life and that is it, XXIV Let it always appear and be manifest unto thee that solitariness, XXV. He that runs away from his master is a fugitive. But the law is XXVI. From man is the seed, that once cast into the womb man hath no XXVII. Ever to mind and consider with thyself; how all things that now XXVIII. As a pig that cries and flings when his throat is cut, fancy to XXIX. Whatsoever it is that thou goest about, consider of it by thyself, XXX. When thou art offended with any man's transgression, presently XXXI. When thou seest Satyro, think of Socraticus and Eutyches, or XXXII. What a subject, and what a course of life is it, that thou doest XXXIII. Let it not be in any man's power, to say truly of thee, that XXXIV. As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost XXXV. A good eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not XXXVI. There is not any man that is so happy in his death, but that some XXXVII. Use thyself; as often, as thou seest any man do anything, XXXVIII. Remember, that that which sets a man at work, and hath power THE ELEVENTH