Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

The intention makes the crime.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.