Happiness comes from within, not from without. The true seat of happiness is the mind. Compare Milton, "Paradise Lost," Book i. 254, 255:— "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven."

Hesiod, "Works and Days," 705.

Plato, "Republic," ix. p. 571, D. Quoted again, "How one may be aware of one's Progress in Virtue," § xii.

And so Dr. Young truly says,— "A man of pleasure is a man of pains." Night Thoughts.

See "Meno," p. 72, A.

Omitting ἕτερα, which Reiske justly suspects.

Reading πρῶτον with Wyttenbach.

As in the story in "Gil Blas" of the person who, after eating a ragout of rabbit, was told it was a ragout of cat.—Book X. chapter xii.