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58 day hear the same things, speak the same things, and at the same time apply them to life.

RASSHOPPERS are musical, snails are voiceless; these delight in dryness, those in moisture. So the dew calls forth the snails, and for the sake of it they crawl out; but the beaming sun arouses grasshoppers, and in the sunlight they sing. Therefore if you wish to be musical and harmonious, do not, when the soul is bedewed with wine over your cups, send her forth to be polluted; but when men sit together and the soul is fired with Reason, then bid her speak divine things and sing the oracles of righteousness.

S those who have well constituted bodies are able to endure cold and heat, so those who have well constituted souls are able to bear anger, and grief, and excessive joy, and the other affections of the mind.

O him that dwells with righteousness every place is safe.

RATHER