Book: To himself

Looking for secluded places in the village, on the seaside, in the mountains. Used to and you really miss it. But too it's gone, because you can at any time to retire into yourself. For nowhere does not find a man more calm and peaceful refuge but in your own heart, especially if that person has inside themselves, lost in contemplation of what he is in a state of complete rest. The rest I call nothing like the order of the [inside]. So always provides itself, the shelter and upgrade yourself. Let them be brief and elementary principal provisions, which, if they occur, will be sufficient to clear you of any resentment and back already not ruffling from that to which you [constantly] come back [with the thought]. After all, what annoys you? The depravity of people? Taking into consideration the idea that intelligent beings created for each other, and that tolerance is part of justice, and that they unwittingly wrong, and that how many have lived in enmity, suspicion, hatred, quarrels died [ "stretched her legs"], return to ashes, you don't have to be annoyed. And you're upset because you paid a whole? So renew [in the mind] both possibilities: either Providence or atoms, and all the other evidence, which show that the world is like the city. But you do corporal? Then take in consideration that the understanding, if it is once assembled themselves [together] and realized their strength, do not mix smoothly or fitfully moving breath* and all you hear about suffering and pleasure and as agreed. But, maybe you are tormented by the vanity? Look how fast everything is forgotten, and like a gaping abyss of infinite eternity beyond and on this side of your life, and how empty [posthumous] the echo, and how changeable and unclear in the opinion of those that seem slavoslovyaschie, and how narrow the space, which is limited to [your reputation]. Because the whole earth is a point, and how small her area [is] this place. And then, how many and what they are, slavoslovyaschie you? So do not forget about leaving this part of himself and above all do not throw and do not strain yourself, but be free and look at things as a man, as a person, as a citizen, as a mortal being. And among the most common truths to which you should apply, let them be these two. The first is that objects do not relate to the soul, but stand firmly without, confusion there is only one internal perception. The second is that everything you see, will soon undergo a transformation and will no longer exist. And [constantly ponder over] how many transformations a witness you have been. The world is changing, life is perception.

Do nothing rashly, and do not otherwise by rule, executed [life] art.

... Distinguishing feature of human good is the ability to love and willing to accept the case and woven by destiny, and not to crush and not to stun the crowd representations internal in the breast established of the demon, but keep it supportive, humbly following after God, not uttering anything against the truth and does nothing against justice. If all people do not believe him that he lives simply, modestly, happily, he does not take offense to any of them, not swerving from the path leading to the goal of his life to which he should come clean, quiet, easily released [from life], to submit to their fate without violence [on her part].

Stick: because neither your notes nor writings about the deeds of the ancient Romans and Greeks, and extracts from writers who you've put in the time of old age, you can not read. So run to target and left empty of hope, come by yourself, while you can, for help, if you have any concern about yourself.

As doctors always keep ready tools and iron fixtures for emergency operations, and you have a ready background for the consideration of the Affairs of God and man and all, including the least make you be aware of the interrelationship of both. In fact, none of the human cases do not do well, not correlating it with the divine, and Vice versa.

So, leaving aside everything else, hold on some things. And remember that each person lives only lasts a moment, and the rest, or have lived, or unknown. So little the time in which he lives, every man is small and the area of land where he lives. Small and the longest posthumous fame, besides it exists in successive generations of people living long and do not know neither themselves, nor the deceased long before them.

In the mind of man, subdued and clean, will not find anything purulent, dirty, treacherous. Fate will not take his life unfinished, as they say on the actor
he left the stage without finishing and do not play the game play. In it also there is nothing from a servant, about sport, nothing clingy, isolated, dependent, secretive.

Do not think that someday you will benefit what will make you once to break the loyalty, discard shame to hate someone, to suspect, to curse, to dissemble, to lust for something that should be hidden behind walls and veils. After all, someone who prefers their own mind, and his demon and officiates at the service of his virtue, not an act of tragic scenes, emit sighs and not feel the need nor alone, nor in the multitude. He will live - and most importantly - not running [for life] and not running away [from it]. It does not care whether his soul is to use a fitted her body longer or shorter period of time. In fact even when you need to leave, he leaves as easily as if you were one of the things, which are modest and decorous, his whole life, fearing just how his thought has not taken any direction, is not peculiar to the reasonable civic creature.

Don't do anything unintentionally, without considering the common good, not understanding, absently. Not cooperate for his thoughts in beautiful words. Don't be verbose nor in speech, nor the vain
in business. And may God that's in you, is a patron of being courageous, Mature, civic, Roman ruler, to put himself in order, which is waiting for a signal to retreat is ready easily part with life, does not need neither the oath nor the guarantor with any other person. Within it clarity and lack of need for external assistance and peace of mind, which depends on the other. So, you need to be [initially] straight, not straighten.

Don't waste the rest of your life in thoughts about others, if you don't relate them to something useful for everyone. In fact miss other [important] thing, thinking about what makes so-and-so and for what purpose, and what he says and what he has in mind and what tricks it uses, and all that gives rise to the deviation from their own leadership. Therefore, it is necessary to remove from the clutch of thoughts [all] disorderly and useless, and most of all the vanity and zlonravie; and need to train yourself to produce such representations, which, if someone suddenly asked you: "what are you thinking now?", you can easily immediately said, that is just about that - so the words themselves have discovered that you are full of simplicity and benevolence and that is inherent in life for the common good, and man, neglecting the thoughts of [their own] pleasure, or even of pleasures, [ignore] any rivalry or slander and suspicion, or anything else, the memory of what would make you ashamed that you have such in mind.

It should be noted that even that is accompanied by phenomena that take place in harmony with nature, there is a certain charm and appeal. So, when baking bread
crack some of it, and therefore these cracks, although contradict to some extent the objectives of the bakery, still somehow relevant, and especially stimulate the appetite. Again and figs burst at the last moment of maturation. And overripe olives the closeness of their decay gives the fruit a peculiar charm. Bread and ears of corn bending to the ground, and furrowed brow of a lion, and the foam flowing from the mouth of the boar, and more, if we consider them in themselves, far from the adornment, however due to the fact that it involves phenomena that take place in harmony with nature, they acquire their beauty and attract the soul, so if one is receptive and has a more profound understanding of what is happening in the [global] General, is that even the secondary phenomena, almost nothing will seem not related with a certain pleasantness. It will look at a real animal's mouth with no less pleasure than the one in imitation of [nature] represent painters and sculptors. Their reasonable opinion he will be able to notice and known completeness and the beauty of the appearance of the old woman and the old man, and enchantment in children; and many things of this kind will open to him, is obvious not for all but only for those who are closely connected with nature and her works.

You need to take into account not only what every day life is decreasing and there is a smaller part, but you need to take into account the fact that if anyone will live to a very
old age, it is unknown whether will get him then the same power of mind to comprehend things and observations to the knowledge of divine and human Affairs. After all, if [people] start to become blunt, the ability to breathe, to eat, to imagine, to breaks and all the rest of it will not disappear, but the ability to intelligently dispose of them, to determine exactly the right amount of duties to divide the original presentation and to ensure I do not have time to escape from life, and everything else that absolutely can't do without a trained mind, is declining earlier [than fading in old age the ability to breathe, to eat]. Therefore it is necessary to hurry not only because death is every hour is getting closer, but also because understanding and comprehension of the connections between things weakens faster [than all other abilities].

Whether you live three thousand, or thirty thousand years, still remember that no man loses other life than that which lives [at the moment], and lives a different life,
except for the one that loses [at the moment]. In this regard, the longest life is very short. Because currently the same for everyone, and endangered species [so too] the same, and lose so little. After all, no past, no future to lose, no one can, because how can lose someone in order that he does not? So always remember two truths: the first - ever all has the same base and rotates in a circle, and therefore does not care to observe those same things in the span of a hundred or two hundred years or in the infinity of time; second the same - that person is very elderly, and very soon dead lose one and the same. Because the present is the only thing they can lose, so as soon as they have, and what man has not, he loses.

Your every action, word, thought let will be as if you are about to leave this life.