When you are content with your present situation, and everything around you adds to that contentment. When you convince yourself that you have all things — all for your good, all by the care of the gods. And when you are just as confident about the future, that all will go well. Everything tends toward the care and preservation of the perfect welfare and happiness of the one who is the perfection of life, goodness, and beauty. The one who creates all things and holds all things within himself. He gathers back into himself all things from all places that have dissolved, so that from them he may create others like them again.
When thou shalt have content in thy present estate, and all things present shall add to thy content: when thou shalt persuade thyself, that thou hast all things; all for thy good, and all by the providence of the Gods: and of things future also shalt be as confident, that all will do well, as tending to the maintenance and preservation in some sort, of his perfect welfare and happiness, who is perfection of life, of goodness, and beauty; who begets all things, and containeth all things in himself, and in himself doth recollect all things from all places that are dissolved, that of them he may beget others again like unto them.