Consider how much happens inside of us each day—events of the body and soul. Now consider that all things in the Cosmos exist within that same time frame.

11. Don’t fall prey to following the opinions of your enemy, search out the truth yourself.

Soon, very soon, you’ll be ashes. A skeleton. A name, or not even...an echo. And what you valued rots, the empty and trifling matters, like dogs yapping at one another, or children who fight and laugh then fall to weeping. Loyalty, modesty, justice, truth...fled from you, gone from the wide-spread earth to Mount Olympus. What then keeps you here, i

future; if you can’t own it, how can it be taken away?

8. If something doesn’t make you worse as a person, it won’t make your life worse. It can’t harm you, inside or out.

“Remember that all is opinion,” says the Cynic

transmuted.

Do you get angry with people with sweaty armpits and bad breath? What good does it do you? Mouths smell. Armpits stink. —But if he were reasonable, he’d fix it. Well you have a brain, you’re rational...tell him! Stir his rational mind with your own. Show him his error. If he listens, it will cure

If you work at what’s set before you, seriously and with reason, vigorously, calmly, without distraction, while keeping