[1]Happiness, the effect of virtue, is the mark which God has set up for
us to aim at. Our missing it is no work of His; nor so properly
anything real, as a mere negative and failure of our own.
[2][Chapter XV of the third book of the _Discourses_, which, with the
exception of some very trifling differences, is the same as chapter
XXIX of the _Enchiridion_.—Ed.]
[3]Euphrates was a philosopher of Syria, whose character is described,
with the highest encomiums, by Pliny the Younger, _Letters_ I. 10.
[4][The two inimical sons of Oedipus, who killed each other in
battle.—Ed.]
[5][This refers to an anecdote given in full by Simplicius, in his
commentary on this passage, of a man assaulted and killed on his way
to consult the oracle, while his companion, deserting him, took refuge
in the temple till cast out by the Deity.—Tr.]
[6][Reference is to Zeno of Cyprus (335-263 B.C.), the founder of the
Stoic school.—Ed.]
[7][Chrysippus (_c._ 280-207 B.C.) was a Stoic philosopher who became
head of the Stoa after Cleanthes. His works, which are lost, were most
influential and were generally accepted as the authoritative
interpretation of orthodox Stoic philosophy.—Ed.]
[8]Cleanthes, in Diogenes Laertius, quoted also by Seneca, _Epistle_ 107.
[9]Euripides, Fragments.
[10]Plato, _Crito_, Chap. XVII.
[11]Plato, _Apology_, Chap. XVIII.