Book VIII · 19 · George Long (1862)

19. Everything exists for some end, a horse, a vine. Why dost thou wonder? Even the…

E verything exists for some end, a horse, a vine. Why dost thou wonder? Even the sun will say, I am for some purpose, and the rest of the gods will say the same. For what purpose then art thou? to enjoy pleasure? See if common sense allows this.

Copy Copy link Share Print

← Earlier

VIII.18

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its pro…

Later →

VIII.20

Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like the man who …