For God, if truly God, does nothing want,But Chrysippus in the places I have alleged says, that the World only is self-sufficient, because this alone has in itself all things it needs. What then follows from this, that the [p. 468] World alone is self-sufficient? That neither the Sun, Moon, nor any other of the Gods is self-sufficient, and not being self-sufficient, they cannot be happy or blessed.
And all these speeches are but poets' cant.
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Secondly, the conception of the Gods contains in
it felicity, blessedness, and self-perfection. Wherefore also
Euripides is commended for saying:
1 Hercules Furens, 1345
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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