Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel
thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to
suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs
walls and curtains: for he who has preferred to everything intelligence
and daemon and the worship of its excellence, acts no tragic part, does
not groan, will not need either solitude or much company; and, what is
chief of all, he will live without either pursuing or flying from death;
but whether for a longer or a shorter time he shall have the soul inclosed
in the body, he cares not at all: for even if he must depart immediately,
he will go as readily as if he were going to do anything else which can
be done with decency and order; taking care of this only all through life,
that his thoughts turn not away from anything which belongs to an intelligent
animal and a member of a civil community.
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