follow him that is able to rectify thee, is equally ingenuous,
as to find out at the first, what is right and just, without help.
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.