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alone or with others—can aim at o
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20. My only fear is doing something
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“ ‘Not in the least.’ ” 36.
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in. • to accept this event with h
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to arrest the man from Salamis deci
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Book 8
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The others? Nothing but anxiety and
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18. What dies doesn’t vanish. It
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the last. There, too, the death of
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steel, not tyrants, not abuse—not
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A man standing by a spring of clear
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Book 9
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Providence—the decree by which fr
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that intermingling. But however muc
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25. Identify its purpose—what mak
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That’s what nature does. Nature
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logos gave you the means to see it
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1. To my soul: Are you ever going t
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which they came. Because our elemen
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12. Why all this guesswork? You can
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law, which governs what happens to
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which the logos is carried through
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Book 11
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Apply this to life as a whole. 3. T
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matter, if we are naive, gullible,
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Even if cowardice has kept you from
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There is no common benchmark for al
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Book 12
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happen, the impositions of the body
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15. The lamp shines until it is put
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Arrogance . . . about this? 25. Thr
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32. The fraction of infinity, of th
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2. On the River Gran, Among the Qua
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how you perceive it” (12.8), thou
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11.31 “But my heart rejoiced”::
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CAEDICIANUS: Perhaps identical with
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HIPPOCRATES: Greek doctor active in
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iography of him by Suetonius. (12.2
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