man as he is a mart, is most proper and agreeable, and that is,
for a man even to love them that transgress against him.
This shall be, if at the same time that any such thing doth happen,
thou call to mind, that they are thy kinsmen; that it is through
ignorance and against their wills that they sin; and that within
a very short while after, both thou and he shall be no more.
But above all things, that he hath not done thee any hurt;
for that by him thy mind and understanding is not made worse or
more vile than it was before. XVII. The nature of the universe,
of the common substance of all things as it were of so much wax hath
now perchance formed a horse; and then, destroying that figure,
hath new tempered and fashioned the matter of it into the form
and substance of a tree: then that again into the form
and substance of a man: and then that again into some other.
Now every one of these doth subsist but for a very little while.
As for dissolution, if it be no grievous thing to the chest
or trunk, to be joined together; why should it be more grievous
to be put asunder?

XVIII. An angry countenance is much against nature, and it is
oftentimes the proper countenance of them that are at the point
of death. But were it so, that all anger and passion were so
thoroughly quenched in thee, that it were altogether impossible
to kindle it any more, yet herein must not thou rest satisfied,
but further endeavour by good consequence of true ratiocination,
perfectly to conceive and understand, that all anger and
passion is against reason. For if thou shalt not be sensible
of thine innocence; if that also shall be gone from thee,
the comfort of a good conscience, that thou doest all things
according to reason: what shouldest thou live any longer for?