—Lives are led at court....
Then good ones can be.
ii. Things gravitate toward what they were intended for.
What things gravitate toward is their goal.
A thing’s goal is what benefits it—its good.
A rational being’s good is unselfishness. What we were
born for. That’s nothing new. Remember? Lower things
for the sake of higher ones, and higher ones for one
another. Things that have consciousness are higher than
those that don’t. And those with the logos still higher.
- It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible
for the wicked not to do so.
- Nothing happens to anyone that he can’t endure. The same
thing happens to other people, and they weather it unharmed
—out of sheer obliviousness or because they want to display
“character.” Is wisdom really so much weaker than
ignorance and vanity?
- Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to
it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself
