Happiness is a good flow of life. - Zeno of Citium

If melodiously piping flutes sprang from the olive, would you doubt that a knowledge of flute-playing resided in the olive? And what if plane trees bore harps which gave forth rhythmical sounds? Clearly you would think in the same way that the art of music was possessed by plane trees. Why, then, seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.