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And among the rest of your stock, let these two maxims be always ready: first, that things cannot disturb the soul but remain motionless without,
while disturbance springs from the opinion within the soul. The second is to consider that the scene is just shifting and sliding off into nothing; and that you yourself have seen abundance of great alterations. In a word the world is all transformation and life is opinion.