A new Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays the modern library

logos nourishes both us and it. And other things spring from
it too—of the same species as the logos itself.
11. Convince them not to.
If you can.
And if not, remember: the capacity for patience was given
us for a reason. The gods are patient with them too, and even
help them to concrete things: health, money, fame. . . . Such is
the gods’ goodness.
And yours, too, if you wanted. What’s stopping you?
12. Work:
Not to rouse pity, not to win sympathy or admiration. Only
this:
Activity.

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Stillness.
As the logos of the state requires.
13. Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it,
because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not
outside.
14. Known by long experience, limited in life span, debased
in substance—all of it.
Now as then, in the time of those we buried.
15. Things wait outside us, hover at the door. They keep to
themselves. Ask them who they are and they don’t know, they
can give no account of themselves.
What accounts for them?
The mind does.
16. Not being done to, but doing—the source of good and
bad for rational and political beings. Where their own
goodness and badness is found—not in being done to, but in
doing.
17. A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming
down, gained nothing by going up.

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18. Enter their minds, and you’ll find the judges you’re so
afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves.
19. Everything in flux. And you too will alter in the whirl and
perish, and the world as well.
20. Leave other people’s mistakes where they lie.
21. When we cease from activity, or follow a thought to its
conclusion, it’s a kind of death. And it doesn’t harm us.
Think about your life: childhood, boyhood, youth, old age.
Every transformation a kind of dying. Was that so terrible?
Think about life with your grandfather, your mother, your
adopted father. Realize how many other deaths and
transformations and endings there have been and ask
yourself: Was that so terrible?
Then neither will the close of your life be—its ending and
transformation.
22. Go straight to the seat of intelligence—your own, the
world’s, your neighbor’s.
Your own—to ground it in justice.
The world’s—to remind yourself what it is that you’re