How rotten and insincere is he, that saith, I am resolved to carry XV. To live happily is an inward power of the soul, when she is affected XVI. Of everything thou must consider from whence it came, of what XVII. Four several dispositions or inclinations there be of the mind and XVIII. What portion soever, either of air or fire there be in thee, XIX. He that hath not one and the self-same general end always as long XX. Remember the fable of the country mouse and the city mouse, and the XXI. Socrates was wont to call the common conceits and opinions of men, XXII. The Lacedaemonians at their public spectacles were wont to appoint XXIII. What Socrates answered unto Perdiccas, why he did not come unto XXIV. In the ancient mystical letters of the Ephesians, there was an XXV. The Pythagoreans were wont betimes in the morning the first thing XXVI. How Socrates looked, when he was fain to gird himself with a XXVII. In matter of writing or reading thou must needs be taught before XXVIII. 'My heart smiled within me.' 'They will accuse even virtue XXIX. As they that long after figs in winter when they cannot be had; so XXX. 'As often as a father kisseth his child, he should say secretly XXXI. 'Of the free will there is no thief or robber:' out of Epictetus; THE TWELFTH BOOK I. Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now II. God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man IV. how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things V. Use thyself even unto those things that thou doest at first despair VI. Let these be the objects of thy ordinary meditation: to consider, VII. All worldly things thou must behold and consider, dividing them VIII. How happy is man in this his power that hath been granted unto IX. Whatsoever doth happen in the ordinary course and consequence of X. How ridiculous and strange is he, that wonders at anything that XI. Either fate, (and that either an absolute necessity, and unavoidable XII. At the conceit and apprehension that such and such a one hath XIII. If it be not fitting, do it not. If it be not true, speak it not. XIV. Of everything that presents itself unto thee, to consider what the XV. It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in XVI. Remember that all is but opinion, and all opinion depends of the XVII. No operation whatsoever it he, ceasing for a while, can be truly XVIII. These three things thou must have always in a readiness: first XIX. Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe. And what is it that XX. Let thy thoughts ever run upon them, who once for some one thing or XXI. To them that ask thee, Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how XXII. Herein doth consist happiness of life, for a man to know XXIII. There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by XXIV. What doest thou desire? To live long. What? To enjoy the XXV.