1 Marcus credits virtues learned from family, teachers, philosophy, and gods.  17 11.3 9:25
       
1: Good morals and temperance from my grandfather Verus.
2: Modesty and manly character from my father's memory.
3: Piety, beneficence, and simplicity from my mother.
4: Avoiding public schools; value good teachers from great-grandfather.
5: Endurance, self-sufficiency, and avoiding factions from my governor.
6: Avoid trifles; embrace philosophy and discipline from Diognetus.
7: Character improvement, simplicity, and understanding Epictetus from Rusticus.
8: Steadfast purpose and calmness in adversity from Apollonius.
9: Benevolence, natural living, and accommodating disposition from Sextus.
10: Refrain from fault-finding; correct gently from Alexander the grammarian.
11: Recognize envy, duplicity, and tyranny from Fronto.
12: Avoid unnecessary excuses; fulfill duties timely from Alexander Platonic.
13: Accept fault with friends; speak well of teachers from Catulus.
14: Love kin, truth, justice; know historical figures from Severus.
15: Self-government, cheerfulness, and integrity from Maximus.
16: Mildness, perseverance, and careful management from my father.
17: Gratitude for family, teachers, friends, and the gods’ guidance.
2 Morning Stoic reflections: face hardship calmly, live by nature’s reason.  17 9.4 7:50
       
1: Begin morning by remembering you'll encounter difficult people. Stay calm.
2: Focus on the soul, dismiss flesh, and avoid distractions.
3: Providence and nature guide everything, accept fate gratefully.
4: Don't delay; recognize your place in the universe.
5: Act as if each action were your last, with dignity.
6: Honor yourself now; life is short and fleeting.
7: Avoid distractions; focus on learning something meaningful and purposeful.
8: Ignoring others' thoughts is better than ignoring your own mind.
9: Understand nature and your role within the whole.
10: Desire-driven offenses are more blameworthy than anger-driven ones.
11: Live every moment as if departing from life imminently.
12: All things fade quickly; observe their fleeting nature.
13: Attend to your inner daemon, not external judgments.
14: Life is the same length regardless of duration.
15: Remember all is opinion, as the Cynic Monimus said.
16: The soul harms itself by acting against nature.
17: Life is fleeting; philosophy guides us through it.
3 Stoic reminders: life is brief; stay rational, pure, dutiful. 16 11.3 9:25
       
1 Life is short, understanding fades first, use time wisely.
2 Natural imperfections can be pleasing when understood in context.
3 Great people die, embrace mortality without fear.
4 Focus on useful thoughts, avoid distractions about others.
5 Work earnestly, be self-reliant, and stay true to duty.
6 Seek what is best for your rational mind.
7 Don't compromise principles for temporary, superficial benefits.
8 Maintain purity of mind and purpose, avoiding superficiality.
9 Value opinions aligned with nature and rationality.
10 Hold onto present, fleeting time; disregard posthumous fame.
11 Understand things fully; recognize their essence and purpose.
12 Act in accordance with nature, avoiding distraction and fear.
13 Keep principles ready for understanding and action.
14 Stop wandering aimlessly, focus on the present goal.
15 Actions aren't just physical; they have deeper implications.
16 Maintain tranquility and simplicity, content with life's path.
4 Live by reason, accept fate, act justly, despise fleeting fame.  51 17.2 14:20
       
1 Adapt to events, using obstacles to achieve higher purpose.
2 Act with purpose and according to perfect principles of art.
3 Retreat within for tranquility, embrace nature's transformations, avoid fame.
4 Common reason, law, and intellect unite humanity and the universe.
5 Death is a natural process, a mystery, not shameful.
6 Accept actions of others, knowing death soon erases all.
7 Remove the opinion of harm, and harm itself vanishes.
8 What doesn't worsen you, doesn't harm you, internally or externally.
9 Universal usefulness compels actions, accept and integrate them.
10 Everything happens justly, in alignment with universal order.
11 Judge things truthfully, not as those who wrong you.
12 Act rationally, change opinions when justly persuaded by others.
13 Use reason constantly; it is your guide to truth.
14 You are a part, returning to the universal whole.
15 Life’s events are like incense grains, falling in sequence.
16 Return to principles and reason, transforming from beast to god.
17 Live virtuously, mindful of death’s imminent arrival.
18 Focus on just actions, not the faults of others.
19 Posthumous fame is fleeting and ultimately insignificant.
20 True beauty and value exist independently of external praise.
21 Souls transform and return to the universe’s elemental intelligence.
22 Respect justice, maintain comprehension, avoid being whirled about.
23 All things harmonize with nature and the universal order.
24 Occupy with necessities, avoid unnecessary thoughts and actions.
25 Try living contentedly with justice and benevolence.
26 Simplify life, accept fate, use reason and justice.
27 Universe is ordered; maintain order within yourself.
28 Avoid negative traits: stubborn, bestial, fraudulent, tyrannical.
29 Ignorance of universal or societal reason makes one a stranger.
30 Live by reason, avoid dependence on external validations.
31 Cherish your craft, entrust your fate to the gods.
32 Observe life’s fleeting nature; focus on meaningful actions.
33 Ancient names fade; focus on just thoughts, acts, and words.
34 Accept destiny’s path, spun by the Fates.
35 Life and memory are transient, lasting only a day.
36 Embrace universal change, seeing it as nature’s constant renewal.
37 Seek simplicity, free from perturbations and external influences.
38 Examine wise principles, understand their values and pursuits.
39 Evil lies in opinions, not external events or conditions.
40 Universe is one living being, interconnected and interdependent.
41 Little soul bearing a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
42 Change is not evil; constancy in change is no good.
43 Time is a river of events, constantly moving and changing.
44 All events are as familiar as spring's roses, summer's fruit.
45 Events follow harmoniously, not just sequentially, within the universe.
46 Heraclitus: Earth's death becomes water, water to air, air fire.
47 Do not fear dying tomorrow; difference is insignificant.
48 Many have died before you; life is ephemeral, insignificant.
49 Be a promontory against waves, firm, unyielding, enduring misfortune nobly.
50 Life is short; value it little, regardless of duration.
51 Follow the natural, short way; act according to reason.
5 Rise daily, live virtuously, ignore opinions, accept nature’s order.  36 17.9 14:55
       
1 Rise to do the work for which you exist.
2 Easily repel troublesome impressions, achieving immediate tranquillity.
3 Judge actions by nature's standards, ignoring blame and opinions.
4 Live according to nature, returning to earth upon death.
5 Exhibit sincerity, endurance, contentment, benevolence, and magnanimity consistently.
6 Perform good deeds without seeking recognition or praise.
7 Pray simply, requesting necessary things only.
8 Understand events as nature’s prescriptions, accepting them for health.
9 Do not be discouraged; resume consistent actions with philosophy.
10 Reflect on the fleeting and worthless nature of life’s pursuits.
11 Evaluate your soul’s current state and purpose continually.
12 Understand what the many perceive as good, is often trivial.
13 Material and form change but remain within the universe.
14 Reason and philosophy are self-sufficient, guiding right actions.
15 True possessions are those aligning with human nature’s end.
16 Habitual thoughts shape the soul; live well everywhere.
17 Seeking the impossible is madness; bad actions are inevitable.
18 Nothing happens outside nature’s capacity; wisdom should overcome ignorance.
19 External things don't touch the soul; the soul controls itself.
20 Man must do good to men and endure obstacles.
21 Revere what directs the universe and thyself similarly.
22 Harm to the state harms the citizen; correct errors.
23 Everything passes quickly; focus on enduring, not transient, things.
24 You are a small part of the vast universe.
25 Others' wrongs do not harm me; follow universal will.
26 The leading soul should remain undisturbed by bodily sensations.
27 Live with the gods, following your divine guardian’s will.
28 Rationally address others’ faults without anger or frustration.
29 Live freely, according to nature, until driven out.
30 The universe intelligently subordinates and coordinates all things.
31 Consider behavior towards gods, family, and others thoughtfully.
32 The knowledgeable soul understands the universe's cyclical nature.
33 Soon you’ll be ashes; focus on eternal virtues.
34 Live justly and rationally, in harmony with universal principles.
35 Only personal badness or common harm should trouble you.
36 Help appropriately without being misled by appearances.
6 Do your duty calmly, live by reason, ignore fleeting externals.  59 18.2 15:10
       
1 The universe is obedient and compliant, perfecting all things rationally.
2 Duty transcends comfort, praise, and even life; perform it well.
3 Look within; notice the quality and value of everything.
4 All things soon change, reducing to vapor or dispersing.
5 Reason knows its disposition, actions, and materials it works upon.
6 Best revenge is not becoming like the wrongdoer.
7 Find pleasure in moving from one social act to another.
8 The ruling principle shapes itself and its perceptions willingly.
9 All things conform to the universe's nature, not external nature.
10 The universe is unity and order or chaos and dispersion.
11 Quickly return to harmony after disturbances; maintain inner balance.
12 Return frequently to philosophy for solace and clarity.
13 Perceive things as they are; avoid being deceived by appearances.
14 Admire rational souls and live in accordance with reason.
15 Existence is a flow; value only what aligns with nature.
16 Value not the applause of others, but conformity to nature.
17 Virtue's motion is divine, advancing quietly and unnoticed.
18 Seek praise from contemporaries, not from posterity.
19 If possible for man, it is possible for you.
20 Overlook faults, like avoiding antagonists in the gymnasium.
21 Gladly change when shown you are wrong; seek truth.
22 Do your duty; other things are indifferent to you.
23 Use things with a generous spirit, and behave socially.
24 Death equalizes kings and grooms, dispersing them among atoms.
25 Consider many things happen simultaneously within the universe.
26 Perform duties calmly and systematically, without anger or frustration.
27 Allow others to follow their nature without vexation.
28 Death ceases sensory impressions, thoughts, and bodily desires.
29 Soul should not give way when the body does not.
30 Avoid becoming a Caesar; stay simple, just, and rational.
31 Awaken from troubling dreams; view life’s challenges similarly.
32 The body is indifferent; the mind values only its actions.
33 Labor is natural for humans as for hands and feet.
34 Robbers, patricides, and tyrants have enjoyed many pleasures.
35 Respect your rational principles more than craftsmen respect their arts.
36 Universe's elements are small, perishable; everything comes from the source.
37 Seeing present things means seeing all, past and future.
38 Recognize the universe's interconnectedness and the friendly relations within it.
39 Adapt to your circumstances and sincerely love your companions.
40 Reverence the power within; live in conformity to intelligence.
41 Only blame yourself if you consider externals as good or bad.
42 All cooperate towards one end, knowingly or unknowingly.
43 Each part of the universe works together harmoniously.
44 Trust in the gods' providence or determine your own path.
45 What happens to one benefits the universal, hence all humanity.
46 Life’s monotony resembles the tiresome repetition of spectacles.
47 All kinds of people and pursuits ultimately end in death.
48 Delight in virtues of those living with you.
49 Be content with your allotted time and substance.
50 Persuade others, but act justly even against their will.
51 He who loves fame, pleasure, understanding considers his own acts good.
52 We control our opinions; things can't naturally form our judgments.
53 Carefully attend to another's words; be in the speaker's mind.
54 What’s not good for the swarm isn’t good for the bee.
55 If abused, helmsman and doctor wouldn’t listen to anyone else.
56 Many born with me are already gone out of it.
57 Jaundiced see honey bitter; mad dogs fear water; why anger?
58 No one hinders living by reason; nothing opposes universal reason.
59 Consider people men please, their objectives, acts, time covers all.
7 All is fleeting; stay rational, love others, rest in justice.  75 17.4 14:30
       
1 Badness: often seen, familiar, short-lived; nothing new, all repetitive.
2 Principles stay alive; impressions extinguish, thoughts can rekindle them.
3 Idle show, stage plays, flocks: stay good-humored amidst these.
4 In discourse, attend; in actions, observe meaning and end.
5 Sufficient understanding? Use it. Insufficient? Retire or seek help.
6 Many celebrated by fame are now forgotten and dead.
7 Accept help; doing duty matters, like soldiers needing assistance.
8 Don't worry about future; same reason helps now.
9 All things interconnected; one universe, god, law, reason, truth.
10 Material fades, forms dissolve, memories overwhelmed by time.
11 For rational beings, same acts align with nature, reason.
12 Be erect, or be made erect by principles.
13 Rational beings exist separately yet cooperate, like body parts.
14 External falls affect feeling parts; mind remains uninjured.
15 Be constant like emerald, unchanging regardless of others.
16 Ruling faculty remains undisturbed; opinions control fear, pain.
17 Happiness: a good daemon. Imagination, leave; I'm not angry.
18 Change is natural; bath, nourishment, everything useful requires change.
19 Universal substance like torrent, uniting bodies, swallowing time.
20 Only concern: acting within human nature's bounds and timing.
21 Forgetfulness of all things and thyself is near.
22 Love wrongdoers; they err ignorantly, unintentionally, without harming you.
23 Universal nature molds, breaks, and reforms everything constantly.
24 Scowling unnatural; repeated, extinguishes comeliness and reason.
25 Nature changes all things, making world ever new.
26 Understand opinions behind wrongdoings; pity, don't be angry.
27 Value what you have; don't overvalue, avoid disturbance.
28 Retreat within; content with justice brings tranquility.
29 Confine to present, understand causes, let wrongs stay where.
30 Focus on what's said and done, understand their causes.
31 Adorn with simplicity, modesty, indifference; love mankind, follow God.
32 Death: dispersion, resolution, extinction, or change.
33 Pain: intolerable kills, lasting is bearable; mind remains tranquil.
34 Fame: consider seekers' minds, cover events like sands.
35 Plato: Elevated mind sees human life and death insignificant.
36 Antisthenes: Royal to do good and endure abuse.
37 Mind should control itself, like face obeys mind.
38 Things don't care if you vex; stay composed.
39 Rejoice, both gods and men.
40 Life reaped like ripe corn: birth, death cycle.
41 Gods' care or reason behind everything, including adversity.
42 Good and just accompany me always.
43 No joining others' wailing, no violent emotion allowed.
44 Plato: Focus on justice, not life or death hazards.
45 Stay at your post, despite dangers; baseness is worse.
46 Good is different from saving life; trust destiny.
47 Contemplate stars, elements' changes, purge life's filth.
48 Plato: View life from higher place, see assemblies, contradictions.
49 Past changes predict future; human life cycles repetitive.
50 Earth returns to earth, heavenly to heavens, dissolved elements.
51 Loving fame means valuing others' activities over one's own understanding.
52 Have no opinions about things; external things can't disturb you.
53 Listen carefully to others, understand their perspective and mind.
54 What's bad for the hive isn't good for the bee.
55 If sailors and patients ignore experts, their safety's compromised.
56 Consider those who entered the world with you are gone.
57 Different perceptions: jaundiced see bitterness, mad dogs fear water.
58 No one stops you from living rationally; universal nature's reasoning.
59 Ponder people's nature and principles, don't blame their mistakes.
60 Many born with you are now gone; reflect on that.
61 Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting; it has limits.
62 Don't behave inhumanely towards those who act inhumanely.
63 Nature allows intelligence to control body, maintaining personal tranquility.
64 Live freely without compulsion; maintain tranquility despite external chaos.
65 Reflect on past pains and how they didn't harm intelligence.
66 Telauges might be nobler than Socrates despite differing reputations.
67 Live modestly, free, social, and obedient to God; simple life.
68 Live free from compulsion, maintaining tranquil mind despite external chaos.
69 Moral perfection: live each day as the last, without hypocrisy.
70 Gods endure bad people; why can't you, destined for end?
71 Flee own badness, not others'; it's possible to change self.
72 Rational and social faculty judges non-intelligent, non-social as inferior.
73 Good act done, received; don't seek reputation or return.
74 Don't tire of receiving usefulness by acting according to nature.
75 Nature moved to make universe; remember this for tranquility.
8 Live rightly, accept change and death, ignore fame, serve mankind. 61 18.1 15:05
       
1 Live life as nature demands, not seeking empty fame.
2 Consider every act: Will I regret it on my deathbed?
3 Alexander, Caius, Pompeius—slaves compared to Diogenes, Heraclitus, Socrates' understanding.
4 Men will repeat actions, even if you burst with anger.
5 Stay unperturbed, act rightly; soon you'll be gone.
6 Universal nature changes all things, yet nothing truly new.
7 Rational nature thrives by seeking truth, social actions, self-control.
8 Use your time to check arrogance, overcome pleasure, and pain.
9 Don't complain about court life or your own.
10 Repentance is self-reproof for neglecting something useful, not for pleasure.
11 Understand things' nature, substance, cause, and their place in the world.
12 Rise to perform social acts, not just to sleep.
13 Apply principles of Physic, Ethic, and Dialectic to impressions.
14 Consider others' opinions on good and bad; understand their actions.
15 Don't be surprised by the world's natural occurrences, like physicians.
16 Changing your opinion is as free as persisting in error.
17 Correct what you can; blame no one else, not gods.
18 Death is transformation within the universe, elements reconstituted.
19 Everything exists for some purpose; find yours beyond pleasure.
20 Nature considers ends like beginnings, as balls thrown up.
21 Reflect on the body's impermanence and the world's fleeting nature.
22 Focus on current tasks; choose goodness over future improvements.
23 Act for mankind's good; accept events as divinely ordained.
24 Life's parts are like a dirty bath; accept reality.
25 Great figures died, and so will you; life is ephemeral.
26 Man's proper work: be benevolent, despise senses, judge fairly.
27 Relate yourself to your body, the divine, and society.
28 Pain affects body, not soul; maintain serenity and judgment.
29 Remember power over thoughts; maintain inner peace and clarity.
30 Speak plainly, sincerely, without affectation in all interactions.
31 Reflect on entire families' deaths; individual deaths are insignificant.
32 Order your life well; act justly, soberly, and considerately.
33 Receive wealth humbly; be ready to let it go.
34 Being unsocial separates you from nature; reconnect willingly.
35 Universal nature converts hindrances into material for use.
36 Face life's troubles individually; neither future nor past pains.
37 Mourning by tombs doesn't benefit the dead or mourner.
38 Judge wisely, sharply, with understanding and insight into actions.
39 Rational animal virtues: justice and temperance, not pleasure-seeking.
40 Remove opinion of pain; reason stands secure, self-collected.
41 Sense hindrances are evils to animal, not rational nature.
42 Causing self-pain is unnecessary; avoid intentionally harming yourself.
43 Find delight in maintaining sound reason and welcoming all.
44 Seek present time; future fame is fleeting and irrelevant.
45 Move locations, keep your soul tranquil and content.
46 Human accidents are bearable; nature brings nothing unendurable.
47 External things disturb through judgment; change judgment to find peace.
48 Ruling faculty is invincible when self-collected and reason ed.
49 Accept first appearances without adding internal judgment or assumptions.
50 Accept nature's annoyances without questioning their existence or purpose.
51 Stay methodical, calm, and maintain internal peace amid chaos.
52 Ignorant of world's purpose, don't seek praise from others.
53 Don't seek praise from those who curse themselves regularly.
54 Align your intelligence with the universal intelligence embracing everything.
55 Wickedness harms only its possessor, not the universe or others.
56 Neighbor's free will is indifferent to your free will.
57 Sun's rays extend without effusion; let understanding similarly extend.
58 Fear of death is either loss of sensation or change.
59 Men exist for each other. Teach or bear with them.
60 Mind moves differently than an arrow, towards its object.
61 Understand every man's ruling faculty; let others understand yours.
9 Unjust acts harm self; control mind, accept change, live socially. 42 16.9 14:05
       
1 Unjust actions defy universal nature, acting against divine will and truth.
2 Happiest to depart life free from lying, hypocrisy, and pride.
3 Be content with death, it is a natural operation of life.
4 He who does wrong harms himself, making himself worse.
5 Not doing a necessary action can also be unjust.
6 Present opinion, conduct, and contentment are enough for life.
7 Wipe out imagination, check desire, extinguish appetite, control ruling faculty.
8 Rational animals share one intelligent soul, as others share nature.
9 All things move toward their kind; rational animals seek unity.
10 Man, God, and universe produce fruit in proper seasons.
11 Correct wrongdoers through teaching, or show indulgence as gods do.
12 Work without seeking pity or admiration; follow social reason.
13 Trouble lies within opinions, not outside; cast it out.
14 All things are familiar, ephemeral, and worthless in essence.
15 Things exist outside; judgment about them lies in ruling faculty.
16 Evil and good lie in rational activity, not passivity.
17 For a stone, neither good nor evil in movement.
18 Understand men's principles; judge the quality of their judgments.
19 All things change continuously; the universe and self transform.
20 Leave another's wrongful act where it lies, separate from you.
21 Change and cessation of life are natural and not fearsome.
22 Examine your own mind, universe's mind, and your neighbor's mind.
23 Every act should aim for social good, avoid mutiny.
24 Quarrels, sports, dead bodies: life resembles representations of death.
25 Contemplate object's form, detach material, determine its natural duration.
26 Infinite troubles arise from discontent with your ruling faculty.
27 Penetrate souls of those who blame or hate you.
28 Universe's periodic movements are unchanged; be content with them.
29 Universal cause is a torrent; do what nature requires.
30 Observe human life's variety; posthumous fame holds no value.
31 Maintain inner peace and justice through social acts.
32 Remove disturbances, contemplate universe's eternity and rapid changes.
33 All things and their spectators will quickly perish.
34 Understand their principles and reasons for love and honor.
35 Loss is change; universal nature delights in change eternally.
36 Everything, even breath, is matter and undergoes change.
37 Enough of complaints; simplify and improve your relationship with gods.
38 Wrongdoing harms the wrongdoer; perhaps he hasn't done wrong.
39 All things come from one source; don't be disturbed.
40 Pray for freedom from desires, not for desired outcomes.
41 Epicurus focused on philosophy and maintained happiness despite suffering.
42 Shameless men must exist; respond with virtues given by nature.
10 Be simple, accept change, follow nature, and quietly do good. 38 18.1 15:05
       
1 Soul, be good, simple, content, satisfied, harmonious with gods, men.
2 Follow nature's requirements; rational, living, political social animal rules.
3 Bear what happens naturally; opinion makes it endurable or intolerable.
4 Instruct the mistaken kindly; blame yourself if unsuccessful.
5 Everything prepared for you from eternity; woven into being.
6 Remember, part of whole; content with nature's assigned parts.
7 Parts of whole perish naturally; change is necessary and good.
8 Retain virtues: good, modest, rational, equanimous, magnanimous, accepting nature's assignments.
9 Maintain simplicity, knowledge, confidence, dealing with circumstances.
10 Pride is misplaced; robbers examine their own opinions.
11 See how all things change; exercise contemplative philosophy.
12 Fear not; seek counsel if unclear, act justly.
13 Ask yourself if others' actions affect your righteousness.
14 Accept nature's giving and taking with obedience and pleasure.
15 Live naturally, anywhere; if intolerable, better to die.
16 Stop talking about being good; just be good.
17 Contemplate time and substance; all things are fleeting.
18 Observe everything's dissolution and change; it is natural.
19 Consider men's base actions; soon they will be nothing.
20 Nature brings good to each; accept it willingly.
21 The earth loves the shower; I love as universe loves.
22 Live here, leave willingly, or die having discharged your duty.
23 This land is like any other; all things similar.
24 Ruling faculty: understanding, social, not fused with the poor flesh.
25 Fleeing from the law is running away; dissatisfied, runaway.
26 Seed, causes, life: observe the hidden power producing things.
27 Consider past, present, future dramas; same forms, different actors.
28 Grieved or discontented man is like a sacrificed pig.
29 Pause: is death dreadful for depriving thee of this?
30 Reflect on your errors when offended by others' faults.
31 Think of others; human things are smoke, fleeting, transient.
32 Let no one say you are not simple, good.
33 Reason conforms to nature; seek joy in rightful actions.
34 Brief precept suffices; remember all things are ephemeral.
35 Healthy understanding perceives all; not seek specific conditions.
36 None die without some being pleased; depart contentedly, benevolently.
37 Inquire the purpose behind actions; start with self-examination.
38 Remember inner persuasion, life; vessel and instruments insignificant.
11 Rational soul loves truth, ignores externals, perseveres in virtuous good. 39 15.5 12:55
       
1 Rational soul sees itself, enjoys its fruits, loves truth.
2 Distribute melody's sounds, value little except virtue and actions.
3 Soul ready to separate from body, with dignity.
4 General interest actions reward themselves; keep doing good.
5 Art of being good involves universal, human nature principles.
6 Tragedies remind us nature's order, accept life's happenings.
7 No life condition better for philosophizing than now.
8 Separation from others weakens social unity; restore connections.
9 Maintain benevolence and steady judgment despite others' hindrances.
10 Nature, superior to art, ensures justice and virtues.
11 Judgment at rest stops pursuits and avoidances disturbances.
12 Soul maintains form, sees truth, avoids contraction and dispersion.
13 Despise me? His issue. I'll avoid contemptible actions.
14 Men despise, flatter, compete, and bow to each other.
15 Dealing fairly shouldn't need announcements; actions reveal character.
16 Soul indifferent to externals, writes judgments within itself.
17 Consider origins, composition, changes, and final state of things.
18 Offended? Reflect on relations, compulsions, and men's ignorance.
19 Guard against unnecessary thoughts, social destruction, untruths, and reproach.
20 Elemental parts obey universal order; intelligent part should too.
21 One consistent life object ensures unity and common good.
22 Country mouse and town mouse: alarm and trepidation.
23 Socrates called popular opinions 'Lamia'—frightening bugbears for children.
24 Lacedaemonians gave shade to strangers, sat anywhere themselves.
25 Socrates refused Perdiccas' favor to avoid unrepayable debt.
26 Ephesians advised recalling virtuous men from former times.
27 Pythagoreans observed stars for constancy, purity, and nudity reminders.
28 Socrates in a skin, teaching friends about appearance's insignificance.
29 Learn to obey rules before teaching them to others.
30 Slave thou art: free speech is not for thee.
31 And my heart laughed within. Odyssey, IX. 413.
32 And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words. HESIOD.
33 Expecting figs in winter is like seeking forbidden things.
34 Epictetus: Remember death, like natural events, is not ominous.
35 Unripe grape, ripe bunch, dried grape—all changes into something.
36 No man can rob us of our free will.
37 Discover art or rules for assenting and moving consistently.
38 Dispute: Not about common matters, but about sanity.
39 Socrates: Seek rational, sound souls; avoid quarrels over irrationality.
12 Live rightly now, trust providence, control opinions, accept change. 36 12.5 10:25
       
1 Arrive by direct road, live now, trust future to providence.
2 God sees ruling principles, rid yourself of material concerns.
3 Composed of body, breath, intelligence; focus on present life.
4 Love self more, value own opinion over others' views.
5 If gods desired it otherwise, they would have done it.
6 Practice even in tasks you despair of accomplishing successfully.
7 Consider condition at death, life's shortness, time's boundless nature.
8 Contemplate principles bare, causes of actions, pain, pleasure, fame.
9 Apply principles like a pancratiast, always ready and prepared.
10 See things' essence: matter, form, purpose.
11 Do only what God approves, accept all given by God.
12 Blame neither gods nor men; both act without malice.
13 Surprise at life events shows unfamiliarity with life's nature.
14 Fatal necessity, providence, or chaos: all guide our actions.
15 Lamp's light shines till extinguished; so should truth, justice.
16 Judge actions cautiously; understand necessity and inherent character.
17 If not right, don't do it; if untrue, don't say.
18 Observe appearances, resolve by formal, material, purpose, time.
19 Perceive higher self, better than emotions and desires.
20 Act with purpose, focus on social end.
21 Soon you'll be nobody; all things change continuously.
22 Everything is opinion; your power lies in controlling it.
23 Activity's cessation causes no harm; life's end is natural.
24 Do nothing inconsiderately; understand life’s brevity and universal constancy.
25 Cast away opinion; nothing hinders you from doing so.
26 Remember universal nature, wrongful acts' irrelevance, life's fleeting present.
27 Recall famous complainers' ends; reflect on life's worthlessness.
28 Gods are seen through their power, just like the soul.
29 Examine everything thoroughly; live justly, truthfully, enjoying connected moments.
30 One light, one substance, one soul; all connected universally.
31 Desire reason and God; death's deprivation is inconsistency.
32 Time assigned is small; act according to your nature.
33 Ruling faculty's use is key; all else is lifeless.
34 Despise death; even pleasure-seekers accept it.
35 Good is timely; death isn't terrible for rational beings.
36 Be satisfied with your part; depart life contentedly.