Let it be your Method to contemplate Spirits, apart from their Bodies, for these are no better then the Shell they are shut up in : Mind the Aim, and the End of Peoples Actions: Examine the value of Fame, the Force of Pain, the Ascendant of Pleasure, ⁷ and see what Death amounts to : Consider upon what account a Man grows troublesome to himself, ⁸ that no Body can be hindered by Another : And that Opinion is the Main Thing, which does good or harm in the World.