| «Everything is just an impression»
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| Said the Cynic
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| And the response is obvious enough
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| But the point is a useful one
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| If you take it for what it’s worth
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| The soul of man does violence to itself first
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| When it does its best to become an abscess
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| A kind of detached growth from the world
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| To be vexed by anything that happens
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| Is a kind of secession from Nature
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| Which comprises the nature of all things
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| To be vexed by anything that happens
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| Is a kind of secession from Nature
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| And it comprises the nature of all things
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| The soul of man does violence to itself
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| When it turns its back on another
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| Or sets out
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| To do harm
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| As the souls of the angry do
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| When overpowered by pleasure or pain
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| When it puts on a mask
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| And does or says anything insincerely and untruly
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| When it allows its action
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| And impulse to be
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| Without a purpose
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| To be random and disconnected
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| Even the smallest things ought to be directed
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| Towards a goal
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| Of a rational animal, follow the reason and the law of the Gods
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| Duration:
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| Momentary
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| Nature:
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| Changeable
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| Perception:
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| Dim
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| Condition of Body:
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| Decaying
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| Soul:
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| Spinning around
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| Fortune:
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| Unpredictable
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| Lasting Fame:
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| Uncertain
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| The body and its parts are a river
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| The soul is a dream and mist
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| Life is warfare
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| And a journey far from home
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| After fame is oblivion
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| The body and its parts are a river
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| The soul is a dream and mist
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| Life is warfare
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| And a journey far from home
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| After fame is oblivion
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| What can guide us?
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| Only philosophy
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| Which means keeping the demon in man
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| Free from violence and unharmed
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| Superior to pleasure and pain
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| Doing nothing without purpose
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| No hypocricy
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| Randomly or dishonestly
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| Not dependent on any man
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| Doing or not doing anything
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| Accept what’s happening
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| Accept what’s happening (faded)
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| And all thats allotted as coming from thence
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| And above all that it accept death
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| In a cheerful spirit
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| In a cheerful spirit
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| And as nothing but the dissolution of that from what it is made
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| If it doesn’t hurt the individual elements to change
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| Continually into each other, why are people afraid?
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| Of all of them changing
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| Separating
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| Its according to nature
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| And nothings evil that’s according to nature
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| Nothings evil that’s according to nature
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| The body and its parts are a river
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| The soul is a dream and mist
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| Life is warfare
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| And a journey far from home
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| After fame is oblivion
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| The body and its parts are a river
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| The soul is a dream and mist
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| Life is warfare
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| And a journey far from home
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| After fame is oblivion |