Man’s Search for Meaning in D Minor

Among irrational animals
One life is distributed
And among reasonable animals
One intelligent soul is distributed
Just as there is one Earth of all things that are of an earthly nature
And we see by one light, and breathe one air
All of us that have the faculty of vision, and all that have life
Your present opinion, founded on understanding
And your present conduct directed to social good
And your present disposition of contemptment with everything that happens
That is enough
Therefore wipe out imagination
Check desire, extinguish appetite, keep the ruined faculty in its long power
Do not despise death, but be well contempt with it
Since this too is one of those things that nature wills
For such as it is to be young, and to grow old, and to increase and to reach maturity and to have teeth and beard and gray hairs and to be git, and to be pregnant, and to bring forth and all the other natural operations that the season of your life brings
Such also is dissolution
Cast away opinion, and you are saved