Book 4
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Why, then, are you anxious? Why break your rest? Why do you not calculate where your good and evil lie, and say, They are both in my own power; nor can any deprive me of the one, nor involve me against my will in the other. Why, then, do not I lay myself down and sleep? What is my own is safe. Let what belongs to others look to itself, who carries it off, how it is distributed by him who hath the disposal of it. Who am I, to will that it should be so and so? For is the option given to me? Has any one made me the dispenser of it? What I have in my own disposal is enough for me. I must make the best I can of this. Other things must be as their master pleases.
