BOOK I

. Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how II. Let it be thy earnest and incessant care as a Roman and a man to III. Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time IV. Why should any of these things that happen externally, so much V. For not observing the state of another man's soul, scarce was ever VI. These things thou must always have in mind: What is the nature VII. Theophrastus, where he compares sin with sin (as after a vulgar VIII. Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, IX. Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and resolved: the X. It is the part of a man endowed with a good understanding faculty, to XI. Consider with thyself how man, and by what part of his, is joined XII. If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands XIII. Remember that all is but opinion and conceit, for those things XIV. A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first and especially, XV. The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever THE THIRD