And also when the ruling faculty is discontented with anything that happens, then too it deserts its post: for it is constituted for piety and reverence towards the gods no less than for justice.
From his personal reflections, on how the mind's discontent with events signifies a failure to uphold its natural duties of piety and justice.
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The safety of life is this, to examine everything all through, what it is itself, that is its material, what the formal part; with all thy soul to do justice and to say the truth.
But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
What remains, except to enjoy life by joining one good thing to another so as not to leave even the smallest intervals between?
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