Meditations 07.12

Be thou erect, or be made erect.

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Meditations 07.11

To the rational animal the same act is according to nature and according to reason.

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Meditations 07.10

Everything material soon disappears in the substance of the whole; and everything formal (causal) is very soon taken back into the universal reason; and the memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

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Meditations 07.09

All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other thing. For things have been co-ordinated, and they combine to form the same universe (order). For there is one universe made up of all things, and one God who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, one common reason in all intelligent animals, and one truth; if indeed there is also one perfection for all animals which are of the same stock and participate in the same reason.

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Meditations 07.08

Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with thee the same reason which now thou usest for present things.

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Meditations 07.07

Be not ashamed to be helped; for it is thy business to do thy duty like a soldier in the assault on a town. How then, if being lame thou canst not mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another it is possible?

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Meditations 07.06

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

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