For of thee nothing is required, ti, is beyond the extent of thine
own deliberation and jun. merit, arid of thine own understanding.

XV. If it were thine act and in thine own power, wi:
wouldcst thou do it ? If it were not, whom dost tin accuse?
the atoms, or the Gods? For to do either, the part of a mad man.
Thou must therefore blame nobody, but if it be in thy power,
redress what is amiss; if it be not, to what end is it to complain?
For nothing should be done but to some certain end.

XVI. Whatsoever dieth and falleth, however and wheresoever it die and
fall, it cannot fall out of the world. here it have its abode and change,
here also shall it have its dissolution into its proper elements.
The same are the world's elements, and the elements of which thou
dost consist. And they when they are changed, they murmur not;
why shouldest thou?

XVII. Whatsoever is, was made for something: as a horse, a vine.
Why wonderest thou? The sun itself will say of itself, I was
made for something; and so hath every god its proper function.
What then were then made for? to disport and delight thyself?
See how even common sense and reason cannot brook it.

XVIII. Nature hath its end as well in the end and final consummation
of anything that is, as in the begin-nine and continuation of it.

XIX. As one that tosseth up a ball. And what is a.
ball the better, if the motion of it be upwards; or the worse
if it be downwards; or if it chance to fall upon the ground?
So for the bubble; if it continue, what it the better? and if