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Is then Vice also such that it should stand in need
of Fortune's help for the working of infelicity? By no
means. She does not make the sea swell with storms and
tempests, she besets not the deserts lying at the feet of the
mountains with robbers, she pours not down storms of
hail on the fruitful fields, she raises not up Meletus, Anytus, and Callixenus, to be calumniators, she takes not away
wealth, she hinders not any from the command of armies,
that she may make men unhappy; but she renders them
rich, abounding in wealth, having great inheritances on
the earth; she bears them company at sea; she sticks
close to them, pining them with lust, inflaming them with
wrath, overwhelming them with superstitions, drawing
them by their eyes. . . .1
1 The rest is wanting.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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