YOU COULD LEAVE LIFE RIGHT NOW - Akira the Don, Марк Аврелий

In comparing sins

The way that people do

Theophrastus says

Those done out of desire

Are worse than those

Done out of anger

(Which is good philosophy)

The angry man

Seems to turn his back

On reason out of a kind of pain and inner convulsion

But the man motivated by desire

Who is mastered by pleasure

Seems somehow more self-indulgent, less manly in his sins

Theophrastus is right

And philosophically sound

To say the sin committed out of pleasure

Deserves a harsher rebuke

Than the one committed out of pain

The angry man is more like a victim

Of wrongdoing

Provoked by pain to anger

The other man rushes into wrongdoing

On his own

Moved to action by desire

You could leave life right now

Let that determine what you do and say and think

You could leave life right now

You could leave life right now

You could leave life right now

Let that determine what you do and say and think

You could leave life right now

You could leave life right now

If the gods exist

Then to abandon human beings is not frightening

The gods would never subject you to harm

And if they don’t exist

Or don’t care what happens to us

What would be the point

Of living in a world

Without gods or Providence?

But they do exist

They do care what happens to us

And everything a person needs to avoid real harm

They have placed within him

If there were anything harmful on the other side of death

They would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you

If it doesn’t harm your character

How can it harm your life?

Nature would not overlook such dangers

Through failing to recognize

Or because it saw them but was powerless to prevent or correct them

To prevent or correct them

(Ey)

Nor would it ever

Through inability or incompetence

Make such a mistake as to let good and bad things happen indiscriminately to

good and bad alike

Good and bad alike

Good and bad alike

But death and life

Success and failure

Pain and pleasure

Wealth and poverty

All these happen to good and bad alike

Good and bad alike

Good and bad alike

Good and bad alike

But death and life

Success and failure

Pain and pleasure

All these happen to good and bad alike

And they are neither noble nor shameful and hence neither good

Nor bad

You could leave life right now

Let that determine what you do and say and think

You could leave life right now

You could leave life right now

You could leave life right now

Let that determine what you do and say and think

You could leave life right now

You could leave life right now