Why so? As thou dost purpose to live, when thou hast retired
thyself to some such place, where neither roarer nor harlot is:
so mayest thou here. And if they will not suffer thee,
then mayest thou leave thy life rather than thy calling,
but so as one that doth not think himself anyways wronged.
Only as one would say, Here is a smoke; I will out of it.
And what a great matter is this! Now till some such thing
force me out, I will continue free; neither shall any man
hinder me to do what I will, and my will shall ever be
by the proper nature of a reasonable and sociable creature,
regulated and directed.

XXIV. That rational essence by which the universe is governed,
is for community and society; and therefore hath it both made
the things that are worse, for the best, and hath allied and knit
together those which are best, as it were in an harmony.
Seest thou not how it hath sub-ordinated, and co-ordinated? and
how it hath distributed unto everything according to its worth?
and those which have the pre-eminency and superiority above all,
hath it united together, into a mutual consent and agreement.

XXV. How hast thou carried thyself hitherto towards the Gods?
towards thy parents? towards thy brethren? towards thy wife?
towards thy children? towards thy masters? thy foster-fathers?
thy friends? thy domestics? thy servants? Is it so with thee,
that hitherto thou hast neither by word or deed wronged any of them?
Remember withal through how many things thou hast already passed,
and how many thou hast been able to endure; so that now
the legend of thy life is full, and thy charge is accomplished.
Again, how many truly good things have certainly by thee been