32. Looking back at the era of Wei Sipei gentry ①, you will see it all: married, raising children, illness, death, war, joy, business, farming, flattery of others, brag, suspicion, intrigue, pray for someone dying, v sigh own Ming Bao, love, savings, desirability as a consul, delusions ripper is king, but now their lives to leave no trace anywhere. Recall that the true age of Tula scene, the situation is completely different, then life has been gone. The same can imagine any age or any country in history, how many dismally results, not from death, attributed to dust. But the most important thing is that you should think about: people who know you only know how to chase vanity and I do not know law-abiding. This you can see, I imposed on any action by the attention, there should be an appropriate proportion of values and ideas as a yardstick. In this way, you will never be apologetic heart, if you are not excessively wasted spirit for minor things.
33. Many of the words used in the past, are now void. Similarly, the history of the song name was praised in a sense be said to be invalid, such as Camilus, Caeso, Volesus, Dentatus, later Scipio and Cato, then after Augustus, and Hadrian and Antoninus②. Because everything will soon fade away and become legend, soon the whole forgotten. The names I mentioned are in the world have taken an unusual brilliant; as for the rest of the people, once off the gas, it can be said to be "invisible to the eye, the heart no longer want" the. But the so-called "immortal reputation," what is it? It is completely unreal. So what we should pursue is it? Only this as: thought just, selfless behavior, no lie, for all experience are considered inevitable, think mundane, are considered to be from a fountain in repetitions.
34. willingly put yourself to Clotho and let her weave your line of life, for what purpose she also arranged by any of it. 35. are all ephemeral, with the memory of those memories are the same thing.
36. To continue to think that everything is relative change in Evolution; we should always think of the universe changes in existing favorite things and create new things of the same type. Everything can be said that the existing seed, breed out new things, but the mention of seeds, you think only sowing seeds in the soil or is the uterus, this view is not too much of a philosophy.
37. You will die too soon, but you can not reach unpretentious, carefree, unexpected subjected to external attack, together with the public Xi no idle, and convinced that wisdom and justice but a real state.
38. The discussion about unifying rational human behavior, take a look at what philosophers to avoid, what to pursue Yes.
39. You are considered to be evil, do not exist in the hearts of others, it will not be because of your own environment caused by any changes. So where is it born? From your own judgment sentenced the evil; no less than your own judgment, then all is well. Judgment neighbor is your poor body, and even your body is torn apart, was burned, fester, and do not judge your light under; in other words, you just can not identify things are good or evil, because anything can happen in the same way a good person or a wicked body. People living together in a natural way with people living in substandard natural way Now that may have the same experiences, it is difficult to say that the encounter is close to the natural way or irregularities in a natural way.
40. To Forever: the universe is regarded as a living thing, there is only one essence, there is only one soul; everything must respond to that perception only; all things are from the only motive that all existing things is the everything will work because of what's going to happen, a root of the line is so interwoven in a mesh fabric lining.
41. Epictetus said, well, you are responsible for a tiny soul of the body.
42. Everything has since changed, it is nothing evil; the almost still some things just have to change as a result of the presence of a lot of money is also good.
43. Time is like a river, a torrent, inside his mouth endless variations. Only just found a thing, it is already gone; behold! And another thing to emerge, it was dark and quiet in turn immediately disappeared without trace.
44. what happens is the usual and familiar, like roses and fruit spring summer. The same is true for disease, aging, death, defamation, fraud, and all the fools joy or distress thing.
45. Later, the past is always closely related. Because a series of things that are not to have occurred, but there is a rational association; like the existing things are fit together in a harmonious order, the next thing is the same, not only consequential nature, and with existing things have clever relationship.
46. Heraclitus never put words to heart: Remember "The way travelers to forget - the people - always" dead soil becomes water, water becomes dead air, fire becomes mad and endless cycle. " and his life is most closely related to the Wizard - unifying rationality of the universe - chide "; we can not" sleep people do things like talk, "because we have to do things in his sleep seems to be talking; there is not like the general style of "children imitate their parents', not at every turn to" our father told us "as an excuse.
47. If one God tells you: "You're going to die tomorrow, anyway always escape the day after tomorrow." So you really are dead tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow dead, you must not think that's what's important, unless you are extremely despicable, because it is too small are! So you really are dead after a number of years, or die tomorrow, you have nothing to do likewise as a stressful thing to look at it!
48. Remember that at any time: How many doctors, often looking after the patient to frown and quietly died; how many astrologers, like after enthusiastically arrange things to notice other people's dates of death and quietly died; how much philosopher, to discuss long-winded and immortality after death and quietly died; how many great soldier, after the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in and quietly died; how many tyrants, arrogant exercise in their life and death power, if he quietly after immortality and death; how many seats the whole city, maybe I should say that, so far, are dead, as Helice, Pompeii, Herculaulanlum③ and countless other places. Look at what you personally know, one by one, are dead. A man just to nail in the coffin of his friend, and then he went down, and a friend to give him a nail in the coffin, he himself went down; it all happened in a short span of a few years. In short, do not forget: all their remaining Lun, how their life is short, and how humble is cheap; yesterday was a pool of mucus, tomorrow will become a mummy or a pile of ash. According to the natural way to dispel this short time now, neat end to this journey, like an overripe olives floor general, supporting the praise that under the earth, that he was grateful that the growth of all things.
49. To like a rock promontory, despite the waves that continue to impact; but in itself standing motionless, surrounded by raging waves soon depressed anymore. "! Ah my bad luck, actually encountered such a thing!" No, it should say: "I'm so lucky, although the experience of such a thing, I was not hurt, neither was broken status quo, nor the future fear. "similar things may fall because everyone's head, but not necessarily everyone can not hurt by it. Why do you think it is unfortunate? I do not think this is a blessing? Anyway, have you ever seen a man's misfortune, and not because he betrayed his nature? Where and will not run counter to human nature, you would think it was abnormal human right? Well, you already know what is the will of the human nature. Do you think you really had happened to make you reduce a little bit of justice, noble, pure, wise, cautious about, should be cool, humility, freedom and other human virtues essential for it? In the future if anything makes you feel hurt, you can not forget the adage:. "Unfortunately, there is no one to do, not because the brave bear and turned into a blessing."
50. There is a method to help us despise death, though not large together in philosophy, but it is quite effective - that is, list what those stubborn people health and longevity. They are short-lived and died than people how much good it? They are, after all, been buried, as Cadicianus, Falins, Fulianus, Lepidus and other ④, they send a lot of demeaning others, and they also own the burial. From any perspective, the length of life of the differences are very small, even life coming to an end, during which also experienced how much trouble, even to encounter any kind of companion, eventually Bing, what kind of body? Nothing extraordinary life. Recall time in opening the mouth behind you, looking forward, it is a endless eternity. Within this eternal life and the life of a Nestor⑤ baby lived only three days up to the third century is the same.
51. The shortest road to go; the shortest way is the natural way, this road to the introduction of the most stable words and deeds. Can such a determination can be exempt from the troubles and competition, away from the ingenuity and pretensions.
[Notes] ①: Shen Wei Sipei Vespasian Roman Emperor the ninth (9 ~ 79A.D.). ②: The famous dictators of the early Roman Republic Camilus. Caeso That KaesoFabiusVibulanus killed in Cremera. Volesus namely P. Hero ValuriusVolusiFilusPoplicola early Roman Republic. Dentatus conquering hero Samnites and Pyrrhus of. Scipio and his son are the 24 soldiers, the Father conquered Hannibal, son destruction of Carthage. Cato is the Mingsiduoya philosophers, committed suicide after the war of Thapsus 46 BC. Rome first emperor Augustus (63B.C.14). ③: Helice Achaio is a city, in about 500 BC was swallowed by the sea. Pompeii in 79 AD was destroyed by Wei Suwei volcano. Wei Suwei Herculaneum near the volcano, also destroyed in 79 years. ④: Cadicianus ancient longevity, life is unknown. (Possibly Caecilanus is false.) Fabius, Julianus, also ancient longevity, I do not know its details. Lepidus lust for immortality, that is probably one of the three Roman ruling that one. ⑤: Nestor is the Greek War of Troy one of the longest of the year leader.