![]() Mind and reason are able to move through any thing that opposes, as their nature and their will prescribe. Now the roller is not allowed everywhere to be moved according to its own natural movement, nor are water, fire, and the rest, which are governed by natural law or life without reason-for there are many things which separate them and resist them. For you should regard as an indulgence whatever you can achieve in accord with your own nature, and this you can achieve everywhere. ![]() You will never cease groaning until you feel that to act appropriately to man's constitution in any material condition which occurs to you or befalls you is for you what luxury is to the sensualist. What is the soundest thing that can be done or said in a given material condition? For whatever this may be, you are able to do or say it, and you are not to make the excuse that you are prevented. ![]() And this entirely rests with you for who prevents your being good and simple? Only make up your mind not to go on living, if you are not like that, for Reason, too, disowns one who is not like that.ģ3. Truthfully that you are not simple and good, but let him be a liar who thinks any of these things about you.
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