13. The characteristic activities are not hindered by outer events but merely adapt themselves, remaining always fine, and perhaps all the finer for dealing with the actual. When he has to handle particular cases and things, he may not be able to put his vision into act without searching and thinking, but the one greatest principle is ever present to him, like a part of his being- most of all present, should he be even a victim in the much-talked-of Bull of Phalaris. No doubt, despite all that has been said, it is idle to pretend that this is an agreeable lodging; but what cries in the Bull is the thing that feels the torture; in the Sage there is something else as well, The Self-Gathered which, as long as it holds itself by main force within itself, can never be robbed of the vision of the All-Good.
MacKenna: Tratado 46,13 (I,4,13) — A visão do bem para o sábio não está suspensa pelo sofrimento
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,11 (I, 4, 11) — THE ONLY OBJECT OF THE VIRTUOUS
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,12 (I, 4, 12) — THE PLEASURES CLAIMED FOR THE VIRTUOUS MAN
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,13 (I, 4, 13) — IN THE VIRTUOUS MAN THE PART THAT SUFFERS IS THE HIGHER
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,14 (I, 4, 14) — MAN BECOMES WISE BY A SPIRITUAL PREPONDERANCE.
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,15 (I, 4, 15) — TWO WISE MEN WILL BE EQUALLY HAPPY
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,16 (I, 4, 16) — THE WISE MAN REMAINS UNATTACHED
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,2 (I, 4, 2) — LIVING WELL NEED NOT BE EXTENDED EVEN TO ALL ANIMALS.
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,3 (I, 4, 3) — HAPPINESS DEPENDS EXCLUSIVELY ON INTERIOR CHARACTERISTICS.
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,4 (I, 4, 4) — HAPPINESS MUST BE SOMETHING HUMAN.
- Guthrie: Tratado 46,5 (I, 4, 5) — MEN MUST SEEK THEIR HAPPINESS IN THAT OF EACH OF THE PARTS OF THEIR NATURE