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Often appears with: withdrawal from worldly pomp · temperance and self-mastery · reasoned action · prudence and practical wisdom · praise and blame · pleasure, pain, and the good life · external goods
Usually: argument (1) · the fall of the great (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
He explains that the rational power and reasoned action do not require worldly outcomes as ends, and that the more one withdraws from external pomp and bears losses well, the better one is.
best, are made one for another? And those things that have souls, are better than those that have none? and of those that have, those best that have rational souls? XVI. To desire things impossible is the part of a mad man. But it is a thing impossible, that wicked man should not commit some such things. Neither doth anything happen to any man, which in the ordinary course of nature as natural unto him doth not happ…