...within our control than we are accustomed to believe. Antoninus lays it down as a rule that we ought to "check in the series of our thoughts everything...all the over-curious feeling and the malignant." And elsewhere he declares, " It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed...

...thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, — " What is such a person doing, and why? and what is he saying,...ought, then, to check in the series of our thoughts every thing that is without a purpose and useless, but most of all the over-curious feeling and the...

...thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, — " What is such a person doing, and why? and what is he saying, and what is he thinking o* and what is he contriving?" — and whatever else of the kind makes us wander away from the observation...

...deity ; the other is earth and corruption. something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying, and what is he thinking of, arid what is he contriving, and whatever else of the kind makes us wander away from the observation...

...unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after." And again : — " We ought to check in the series of our thoughts everything...without a purpose and useless, but most of all the over curious feeling and the malignant ; and a man should use himself to think of those 366 ESSAYS...

...deity ; the other is earth and corruption. something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying,...everything that is without a purpose and useless, hut most of all the overcurious feeling and the malignant ; and a man should use himself to think of...

...thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, — What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying,...over-curious feeling and the malignant ; and a man shotftl USQ . himself to think of those things only about which if one should suddenly ask, What hast...

...thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, — What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying,...away from the observation of our own ruling power. \Ve ought then to check in the series of our thoughts every th'ng that is without a purpose and useless,...

...being unnecessary, if a man takes this away, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. We ought to check in the series of our thoughts everything that is without a purpose and useless. What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service? Art thou not content that thou hast done...

...gain. For you lose the opportunity of doing something else when you have such thoughts as these : what is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying,...everything that is without a purpose and useless, and above all, meddling and ill nature ; and a man should use himself to think of those things only...