that, even if it brings you no glory.
None of us is forbidden to pursue our own good.- Source and substance of each thing. What it changes into,
and what it’s like transformed; that nothing can harm it. - i. My relationship to them. That we came into the world
for the sake of one another. Or from another point of view, I
came into it to be their guardian—as the ram is of the flock,
and the bull of the herd.
Start from this: if not atoms, then Nature—directing
everything. In that case, lower things for the sake of higher
ones, and higher ones for one another.
ii. What they’re like eating, in bed, etc. How driven they
are by their beliefs. How proud they are of what they
do.iii. That if they’re right to do this, then you have no right
to complain. And if they aren’t, then they do it
involuntarily, out of ignorance. Because all souls are
prevented from treating others as they deserve, just as
they are kept from truth: unwillingly. Which is why they
resent being called unjust, or arrogant, or greedy—any