frame infancy youth and old age so in some future frame will it find like one who is confirmed in this belief is not disturbed by any thing that come to pass the sensibility of the heat and cold pleasure and which come and go and are transient and bear them with patience son of for the wise man whom these disturb not and to whom pain and pleasure are the same is formed for immortality a thing imaginary hath no existence while that which is true is a stranger to by those who look into the principles of the design of each is learn that he by whom all thing were formed is and that no one is able to the destruction of this thing which is inexhaustible the man who that it is the soul which and he who that the soul may be destroyed are both alike deceived for it neither nor is it killed it is not a thing of which a man may say it hath been it is about to be or is to be hereafter for it is a thing without birth it is ancient constant and eternal and is not to be destroyed in this its mortal frame � as a man away old garments and on new even so the soul having quitted its old mortal frame enter into which are new but whether thou it of eternal birth and duration or that it with the body still thou hast no cause to lament death is to all thing which are subject to birth and to all things which are mortal wherefore it doth not thee to grieve about that is inevitable the state of beings is unknown the middle state is evident and their future state is not to be discovered why then thou trouble about such as these some regard of the ancient the soul as a wonder whilst some speak and hear of it with astonishment but no one it although he may have heard it described p the wisdom of that man is established who in all things is without affection and having good or evil neither at the one nor is cast down by the other his wisdom is confirmed when like the he can draw in all his members and restrain them from their purposes the hungry man every other object but the gratification of his appetite and when he is become acquainted with the supreme he even that p but the man who may be self delighted and and who may be happy in his own sod hath no occasion he hath no interest either in that which is done or that which is not done and there is not in all things which may have been created any object on which he may place dependence wherefore perform thou that which thou hast to do at all times of the event for the man who that which he hath to do without affection the supreme p the which proceed from the feelings are as the of future pain p he my servant is dear unto me who is free from enmity the friend of all nature merciful from pride and selfishness the same in pain and pleasure patient of wrongs contented devout of subdued passions and firm and whose mind and understanding are fixed on me alone he also is my beloved of whom mankind are not afraid and who of mankind is not afraid and who is fr e from the influence of joy impatience and the dread of harm he my servant is dear unto me who is just and pure impartial free from distraction of mind and who hath forsaken every enterprise he also is worthy of my love who neither nor fault who neither nor and being my servant hath forsaken both good and evil fortune he also is my beloved servant who is the same in friendship and in hatred in honor and in in cold and in heat in pain and in pleasure who is about the event of to whom praise and blame are as one who is of speech and pleased with whatever to pass who no particular home and who is of steady mind s e i as philosophy of the ancient the carpenter having his tools in hand toils and suffers and them aside rests and is easy so the soul in with its is active and them p the being is unto the tree the whose root is above and whose branches are below and whose are the he who that is acquainted with the its branches growing from the three qualities whose lesser shoots are the objects of the organs of sense spread forth some and some low the roots which are spread abroad below in the regions of mankind are restrained by action its form is not to be found here neither its beginning nor its end nor its likeness when a man hath cut down this whose root is so firmly fixed with the strong axe of from that time that place is to be sought from whence there is no return for those who find it p the in his fancies that the of hunger thirst cold and the like is pleasure but of a truth it is pain for suffering is pleasure to those whose eyes are darkened by ignorance whose limbs exceedingly desire pleasure by exercise the of fire is caused by cold of water by thirst of food by hunger by other circumstances their are equally agreeable p let us therefore lay aside the angry passions of our race and so strive that we that perfect pure and eternal happiness which shall be beyond the power of hie elements or their duties which shall be by men or beasts or by the of human nature by bodily sickness and disease or hatred envy malice passion or desire which nothing shall and which every one who his 