For if thy reason do her part, what more canst thou require?

XII. As a part hitherto thou hast had a particular subsistence:
and now shalt thou vanish away into the common substance of Him,
who first begot thee, or rather thou shalt be resumed again into
that original rational substance, out of which all others have issued,
and are propagated. Many small pieces of frankincense are set upon
the same altar, one drops first and is consumed, another after;
and it comes all to one. XIII. Within ten days, if so happen,
thou shalt be esteemed a god of them, who now if thou shalt return
to the dogmata and to the honouring of reason, will esteem of thee
no better than of a mere brute, and of an ape. XIV. Not as though
thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs over thee:
whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.

XV. Now much time and leisure doth he gain, who is not curious to know
what his neighbour hath said, or hath done, or hath attempted,
but only what he doth himself, that it may be just and holy?
or to express it in Agathos' words, Not to look about upon
the evil conditions of others, but to run on straight in the line,
without any loose and extravagant agitation.

XVI. He who is greedy of credit and reputation after
his death, doth not consider, that they themselves by whom
he is remembered, shall soon after every one of them be dead;
and they likewise that succeed those; until at last all memory,
which hitherto by the succession of men admiring and soon
after dying hath had its course, be quite extinct.
But suppose that both they that shall remember thee, and thy
memory with them should be immortal, what is that to thee?