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RV 16 (Chap. 4.) might live prosperously and undisturbed. What you wish for, it is your Business to consider.

§. 5. Of what Service, then, is Chrysippus to us?

To teach you, that those Things are not false, on which Prosperity and Ease depend. "Take my Books, and you will see, how true and conformable to Nature those Things are, which render me easy." How great a Happiness! And how great the Benefactor, who shows the Way! To Triptolemus all Men have raised Temples and Altars, because he gave us a milder Kind of Food: but to him who hath discovered, and brought to Light, and communicated, the Truth to all ; the Means, not of living, but of living well; who among you ever raised an Altar or a Temple, or dedicated a Statue, or who worships God on that Account? We offer Sacrifices on the Account of those [Benefactors] who have given us Corn and the Vine; and shall we not give Thanks to God, for those who have produced that Fruit in the human Understanding, by which they proceed to discover to us the true Doctrine of Happiness? 