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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