BOOK I

. He that is unjust, is also impious. For the nature of the universe, II. It were indeed more happy and comfortable, for a man to depart out III. Thou must not in matter of death carry thyself scornfully, but as IV. He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts V. If my present apprehension of the object be right, and my present VI. To wipe away fancy, to use deliberation, to quench concupiscence, to VII. Of all unreasonable creatures, there is but one unreasonable soul; VIII. Man, God, the world, every one in their kind, bear some fruits. IX. Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one XI. This day I did come out of all my trouble. Nay I have cast out all XII. All those things, for matter of experience are usual and ordinary; XIII. The things themselves that affect us, they stand without doors, XIV. As virtue and wickedness consist not in passion, but in action; so XV. To the stone that is cast up, when it comes down it is no hurt unto XVI. Sift their minds and understandings, and behold what men they be, XVII. All things that are in the world, are always in the estate XVIII. it is not thine, but another man's sin. Why should it trouble XIX. Of an operation and of a purpose there is an ending, or of an XX. As occasion shall require, either to thine own understanding, or to XXI. As thou thyself, whoever thou art, were made for the perfection and XXII. Children's anger, mere babels; wretched souls bearing up dead XXIII. Go to the quality of the cause from which the effect doth XXIV. Infinite are the troubles and miseries, that thou hast already XXV. When any shall either impeach thee with false accusations, or XXVI. Up and down, from one age to another, go the ordinary things of XXVII. Within a while the earth shall cover us all, and then she herself XXVIII. And these your professed politicians, the only true practical XXIX. From some high place as it were to look down, and to behold XXX. Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy XXXI. To comprehend the whole world together in thy mind, and the whole XXXII. What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that XXXIII. Loss and corruption, is in very deed nothing else but change and XXXIV. How base and putrid, every common matter is! Water, dust, and XXXV. Will this querulousness, this murmuring, this complaining and XXXVI. It is all one to see these things for a hundred of years together XXXVII. If he have sinned, his is the harm, not mine. But perchance he XXXVIII. Either all things by the providence of reason happen unto every XXXIX. Sayest thou unto that rational part, Thou art dead; corruption XL. Either the Gods can do nothing for us at all, or they can still and XLI. 'In my sickness' (saith Epicurus of himself:) 'my discourses were XLII. It is common to all trades and professions to mind and intend that XLIII. When at any time thou art offended with any one's impudency, put THE TENTH