to thyself; How will this when it is done agree with me?
Shall I have no occasion to repent of it? Yet a very little
while and I am dead and gone; and all things are at end.
What then do I care for more than this, that my present
action whatsoever it be, may be the proper action of one that
is reasonable; whose end is, the common good; who in all things
is ruled and governed by the same law of right and reason,
by which God Himself is.
III. Alexander, Caius, Pompeius; what are these
to Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Socrates? These penetrated into
the true nature of things; into all causes, and all subjects:
and upon these did they exercise their power and authority.
But as for those, as the extent of their error was, so far
did their slavery extend.