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Book 8 complete

"It's quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it." -- Book 7.67

"But, my good friend, consider the possibility that nobility and virtue are not synonymous with the loss or preservation of one's life. Is it not possible that a real man should forget about living a certain number of years, and should not cling to life, but leave it up to the gods, accepting, as women say, that 'no one can escape his fate,' and turn his attention to how he can best live the life before him?"

"So many who were remembered already forgotten, and those who remembered them long gone." -- Book 7.7

"Straight, not straightened." -- Book 7.12

"Close to forgetting it all, close to being forgotten." -- Book 7.21

Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:
- to accept this event with humility
- to treat this person as he should be treated
- to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in. (Book 7.54.)