The Second to the first original cause, God, from whom
originally proceeds whatsoever doth happen in the world.
The third and last, to them that we live and converse with:
what use may be made of it, to their use and benefit XXVI.
If pain be an evil, either it is in regard of the body; (and that
cannot be, because the body of itself is altogether insensible:)
or in regard of the soul But it is in the power of the soul,
to preserve her own peace and tranquillity, and not to suppose
that pain is evil. For all judgment and deliberation;
all prosecution, or aversation is from within, whither the sense
of evil (except it be let in by opinion) cannot penetrate.

XXVII. Wipe off all idle fancies, and say unto thyselF incessantly;
Now if I will, it is in my power to keep out of this my soul
all wickedness, all lust, and concupiscences, all trouble
and confusion. But on the contrary to behold and consider
all things according to their true nature, and to carry
myself towards everything according to its true worth.
Remember then this thy power that nature hath given thee.

XXVIII. Whether thou speak in the Senate or whether thou speak
to any particular, let thy speech In always grave and modest.
But thou must not openly and vulgarly observe that sound
and exact form of speaking, concerning that which is truly good
and truly civil; the vanity of the world, and of worldly men:
which otherwise truth and reason doth prescribe.

XXIX. Augustus his court; his wife, his daughter, his nephews,
his sons-in-law his sister, Agrippa, his kinsmen, his domestics,
his friends; Areus, Maecenas, his slayers of beasts for sacrifice