BOOK I

. That inward mistress part of man if it be in its own true natural II. Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according III. They seek for themselves private retiring IV. If to understand and to be reasonable be common unto all men, then V. As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature's wisdom: a VI. Such and such things, from such and such causes, must of necessity VII. Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. VIII. Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth happen justly, and so if IX. Conceit no such things, as he that wrongeth thee conceiveth, X. These two rules, thou must have always in a readiness. First, do XI. Hast thou reason? I have. Why then makest thou not use of it? For if XII. As a part hitherto thou hast had a particular subsistence: and now XIII. Within ten days, if so happen, thou shalt be esteemed a god of XIV. Not as though thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs XV. Now much time and leisure doth he gain, who is not curious to know XVI. He who is greedy of credit and reputation after his death, doth XVII. If so be that the souls remain after death (say they that will not XVIII. Not to wander out of the way, but upon every motion and desire, XIX. Whatsoever is expedient unto thee, O World, is expedient unto me; XX. They will say commonly, Meddle not with many things, if thou wilt XXI. Try also how a good man's life; (of one, who is well pleased with XXII. Either this world is a kosmoz or comely piece, because all XXIII. A black or malign disposition, an effeminate disposition; an XXIV. He is a true fugitive, that flies from reason, by which men are XXV. There is, who without so much as a coat; and there is, who without XXVI. What art and profession soever thou hast learned, endeavour to XXVII. Consider in my mind, for example's sake, the times of Vespasian: XXVIII. Those words which once were common and ordinary, are now become XXIX. Whatsoever is now present, and from day to day hath its existence; XXX. Thou art now ready to die, and yet hast thou not attained to XXXI. Behold and observe, what is the state of their rational part; and XXXII. In another man's mind and understanding thy evil Cannot subsist, XXXIII. Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living XXXIV. What art thou, that better and divine part excepted, but as XXXV. To suffer change can be no hurt; as no benefit it is, by change to XXXVI. Whatsoever doth happen in the world, is, in the course of nature, XXXVII. Let that of Heraclitus never be out of thy mind, that the death XXXVIII. Even as if any of the gods should tell thee, Thou shalt XXXIX. Let it be thy perpetual meditation, how many physicians who XL. Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though XLI. Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened! nay, happy I, XLII. It is but an ordinary coarse one, yet it is a good effectual XLIII. Let thy course ever be the most compendious way. The most THE FIFTH