Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.
Diogenes would frequently praise those who were about to marry, and yet did not marry.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boรซthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.
Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.