And secondly, that that life which any the longest liver,
or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration
the very same, for that only which is present, is that,
which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have;
for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.

XIII. Remember that all is but opinion and conceit, for those things
are plain and apparent, which were spoken unto Monimus the Cynic;
and as plain and apparent is the use that may be made of those things,
if that which is true and serious in them, be received as well as that
which is sweet and pleasing.

XIV. A man's soul doth wrong and disrespect itself first
and especially, when as much as in itself lies it becomes
an aposteme, and as it were an excrescency of the world,
for to be grieved and displeased with anything that happens
in the world, is direct apostacy from the nature of the universe;
part of which, all particular natures of the world, are.
Secondly, when she either is averse from any man, or led
by contrary desires or affections, tending to his hurt
and prejudice; such as are the souls of them that are angry.
Thirdly, when she is overcome by any pleasure or pain.
Fourthly, when she doth dissemble, and covertly and falsely
either doth or saith anything. Fifthly, when she doth either
affect or endeavour anything to no certain end, but rashly
and without due ratiocination and consideration, how consequent
or inconsequent it is to the common end. For even the least
things ought not to be done, without relation unto the end;
and the end of the reasonable creatures is, to follow and obey him,
who is the reason as it were, and the law of this great city,