8. In a modest thoroughly cleaned people's hearts, you will not find sores, gangrene, or hidden pustules; to a deadline, his life will not suddenly be cut off - not as tragic actor lines That is as complete a hurry to step down. Besides, he was not a little servility, with no false Johnson, do not rely on others, nor forsake others, not afraid of accountability, but also do not need to dodge.
9. To respect your ability to form an opinion of it. Your rational dominate among opinion whether natural incongruous, incompatible with the presence or absence of a rational animal institutional opinion, entirely on it. This gives you the ability to fine well-considered, for human love, for God piety.
10. abandon all other things, it only grasp these two, although only these; to remember that human life is only present such a period of time, the rest were not already in the past, that is, it may never come. Life is really very small, where he had to survive just a little corner of the earth, it is all down long life experience is window dressing reputation insignificant, it is only by some poor people removed narrated, they also have to die soon, they may not be able to recognize themselves, not to mention long ago before people died.
11. In addition to the creed also a plus - "you encounter one thing, they give it to the next for a definition or description, in order to clearly see the naked truth, all the truth", then himself What thought to myself its name is time? What is the name of the molecular composition of that? To change the future become what? Most can cultivate noble-minded thing in all of life's experience, as does methodical research to study the universe in the end parameter is kind of a thing? What is the utility of the current things this universe? What is the value of the universe? What is the value of people? But that people in the highest national organizations of citizens, various other organizations like nature had family; currently it gave me the impression of something, what is its nature? What is a molecule composed of? Can about how long? It can lead to what my virtues? Such as humility, courage, true, loyal and honest, self-contained and so on. Under each case you have to say: this is from God, but that due to the interleaving of fate and similarities accidental cause; but this comes from a person of the same family, a relative, a neighbor, although he did not know what was close to his nature. But I know, so I have to treat him kindly and fairly, to fit the natural laws of good-neighborliness; the same time, neither good nor evil things, I want to determine their true value for the purpose.
12. If you do things can follow right reason, sincere, courageous, calm, focused exclusively maintain the purity of the sacred heart, seems now to have it your money back immediately to God in general; if you can grasp it, do not without him seek nor shunned, and activities to meet the current permitted naturally, a word spoken conversation are regarded as bold and true, then you will be happy the life; no one can stop you.
13. The general is like a doctor, scissors in hand ready to cope with emergency surgery; you have identified the same purpose, ready to deal with those matters concerning man and God, even though a very trivial thing, but also fully aware both related to each other. Because you can never do any of the persons responsible for aspects of a good, unless you relate it to respect God to turn versa.
14. Do not wander roam; because you probably will not read your own "Notes" ① or "ancient Greek and Roman stories" ②, and excerpts of books that you prepare in the elderly read. Quickly toward your goal, and if you value your own, quickly give up all delusion, it can still be a force to take advantage of the time you save yourself!
15. They do not know how much these words contain meaning - stealing, sowing, buying, silence, found something to do, this is not the eye can see, but need another vision. ③
16. The body, soul, wisdom: the feeling of belonging to the body, the soul belongs to desire, truth belongs to wisdom. Obtained by the sensory impression, cattle whom also excellent; like to pull strings like a puppet by the desire, the beast and the favorite child ④, a Farah Rees with a Nero, are the same. When it comes to rely on the wisdom of a guide to the best of their responsibility to recognize, people will not believe in God, and not see the national emergency rescue of people, people who do bad things behind closed doors, all have this ability. If any other Shijie is common to these various people, so a good feature of this only a little, that is - for everything that happened to his fate and made up things, that any feeling happy and Welcome, do not deface their inner gods, do not bother to go to a lot of delusion it to maintain its quiet and solemn, neatly do it like a god, do not lie, not Xiexing. If all people do not believe he ever was simple and plain and happy life, he is not on any of them angry, nor change its rut, he is still a "purely, quietly," toward his life forward swan's, ready to leave at any time of life, there is no reluctantly accepts his fate.
Explanatory Note ①: "Notes" Memoranda of them might be the book "Meditations." ②: Some people think this is Aurelius or a history of his own book. ③: This section XV significance can not even pass, falling into a mistaken suspect there are original wrong. ④: Original pathics, the male prostitutes.