And you are annoyed at not seeing how you and the universe are all working together for the best, so far as the laws of the common creation admit.

The soul undergoes many changes from her contact with bodies; and all that the player does is to put the pieces into their right places.

'What do you mean ?' I mean that God acts in the way which is simplest and easiest.

Had each thing been formed without any regard to the rest, the transposition of the Cosmos would have been endless; but now there is not much trouble in the government of the world.

For when the king saw the actions of the living souls and bodies, and the virtue and vice which were in them, and the indestructibility of the soul and body (although they were not eternal), he contrived so to arrange them that virtue might conquer and vice be overcome as far as possible; giving them a seat and room adapted to them, but leaving the direction of their separate actions to men's own wills, which make our characters to be what they are.