that she can so bound herself, as that neither the sensitive,
nor the appetitive faculties, may not anyways prevail upon her.
For both these are brutish. And therefore over both she
challengeth mastery, and cannot anyways endure, if in her right temper,
to be subject unto either. And this indeed most justly.
For by nature she was ordained to command all in the body.
The third thing proper to man by his constitution, is, to avoid
all rashness and pre-cipitancy; and not to be subject to error.
To these things then, let the mind apply herself and go straight on,
without any distraction about other things, and she hath her end,
and by consequent her happiness.

XXXI. As one who had lived, and were now to die by right,
whatsoever is yet remaining, bestow that wholly as a gracious
overplus upon a virtuous life. Love and affect that only,
whatsoever it be that happeneth, and is by the fates
appointed unto thee. For what can be more reasonable?
And as anything doth happen unto thee by way of cross,
or calamity, call to mind presently and set before thine eyes,
the examples of some other men, to whom the self-same thing
did once happen likewise. Well, what did they? They grieved;
they wondered ; they complained. And where are they now?
All dead and gone. Wilt thou also be like one of them?
Or rather leaving to men of the world (whose life both
in regard of themselves, and them that they converse with,
is nothing but mere mutability; or men of as fickle minds,
as fickle bodies; ever changing and soon changed themselves:
let it be thine only care and study, how to make a right use
of all such accidents. For there is good use to be made
of them, and they will prove fit matter for thee to work upon,