Do Not Resist Themsems

Let not that chief commanding part of thy soul be ever subject to any variation through any corporal, either pain or pleasure. Neither suffer it to be mixed with these, but let it both circumscribe itself and confine those affections to their own proper parts and members. If at any time they do reflect and rebound upon the mind and understanding, as in a united and compacted body it must needs,. then must thou not go about to resist sense and feeling, and be not being natural. Add an opinion of either good or bad, and all is well. He liveth with the gods, who at all times affords unto them the spectacle of a soul, both contented and