both thou and he shall both be dead, and after a little while more,
not so much as your names and memories shall be remaining.

VII. Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged.
If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any
such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse,
cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly
or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so,
and therefore necessary. VIII. Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth
happen justly, and so if thou dost well take heed, thou shalt find it.
I say not only in right order by a series of inevitable consequences,
but according to justice and as it were by way of equal distribution,
according to the true worth of everything. Continue then to take
notice of it, as thou hast begun, and whatsoever thou dost,
do it not without this proviso, that it be a thing of that nature
that a good man (as the word good is properly taken) may do it.
This observe carefully in every action. IX. Conceit no such things,
as he that wrongeth thee conceiveth, or would have thee to conceive,
but look into the matter itself, and see what it is in very truth.
X. These two rules, thou must have always in a readiness.
First, do nothing at all, but what reason proceeding from that regal and
supreme part, shall for the good and benefit of men, suggest unto thee.
And secondly, if any man that is present shall be able to rectify
thee or to turn thee from some erroneous persuasion, that thou
be always ready to change thy mind, and this change to proceed,
not from any respect of any pleasure or credit thereon depending,
but always from some probable apparent ground of justice, or of some
public good thereby to be furthered; or from some other such inducement.

XI. Hast thou reason? I have. Why then makest thou not use of it?