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Not even death

One to whom that alone is good which comes in good season, to whom it is all the same whether he performs a greater or a lesser number of actions accordin...

Simply be one

No more of all this talk about what a good man should be, but simply be one!

Rulers compared to philosophers

What are Alexander, Caesar, and Pompey when compared to Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Socrates? For these latter viewed all things in terms of both matter and...

Live according to nature

As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to ...

On pain

On pain: if it is unbearable, it carries us off, if it persists, it can be endured. The mind, too, can preserve its calm by withdrawing itself, and the ru...