This also thou must observe, that whatsoever it is that naturally III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and IV. Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning V. Do nothing against thy will, nor contrary to the community, nor VI. To be cheerful, and to stand in no need, either of other men's help VII. If thou shalt find anything in this mortal life better than VIII. Never esteem of anything as profitable, which shall ever constrain IX. In the mind that is once truly disciplined and purged, thou canst X. Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in XI. To these ever-present helps and mementoes, let one more be added, XII. What is this, that now my fancy is set upon? of what things doth XIII. If thou shalt intend that which is present, following the rule of XIV. As physicians and chirurgeons have always their instruments ready XV. Be not deceived; for thou shalt never live to read thy moral XVI. To steal, to sow, to buy, to be at rest, to see what is to be done XVII. To be capable of fancies and imaginations, is common to man and THE FOURTH 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: