And what is it you will resent? Human wickedness? Recall the conclusion that rational creatures are born for each other's sake, that tolerance is a part of justice, that wrongdoing is not deliberate. Consider the number of people who spent their lives in enmity, suspicion, hatred , outright war, and were then laid out for burial or reduced to ashes. Stop, then. or will you fret at your allocation from the Whole? Revisit the alternatives - providence or atoms - and the many indications that the universe is a kind of community. But will matters of the flesh still have their hold on you. Consider that the mind, once it has abstracted itself and come to know its own defining power, has no contact with the movement of the bodily spirit, be that smooth or troubled: and finally remember all that you have heard and agreed about pain and pleasure.
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