§2.13.1Οὐδὲν ἀθλιώτερον τοῦ πάντα κύκλῳ ἐκπεριερχομένου καὶ ʽτὰ νέρθεν γᾶς (φησὶν) ἐρευνῶντοςʼ καὶ τὰ ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν πλησίον διὰ τεκμάρσεως ζητοῦντος, μὴ αἰσθομένου δέ, ὅτι ἀρκεῖ πρὸς μόνῳ τῷ ἔνδον ἑαυτοῦ δαίμονι εἶναι καὶ τοῦτον γνησίως θεραπεύειν.
Nothing is more wretched than he who goes round all things in a circle, and (as the poet says) "inquires into the things under the earth," and searches by conjecture into the things in the souls of his neighbors, but does not perceive that it is sufficient to attend to the daemon within himself alone, and to worship him genuinely.
θεραπεία δὲ αὐτοῦ, καθαρὸν πάθους διατηρεῖν καὶ εἰκαιότητος καὶ δυσαρεστήσεως τῆς πρὸς τὰ ἐκ θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων γινόμενα.
And the worship of him consists in keeping him pure from passion and thoughtlessness, and from discontent with what comes from gods and men.
τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ θεῶν αἰδέσιμα δι’ ἀρετήν· τὰ δὲ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων φίλα διὰ συγγένειαν, ἔστι δὲ ὅτε καὶ τρόπον τινὰ ἐλεεινὰ δι’ ἄγνοιαν ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν· οὐκ ἐλάττων ἡ πήρωσις αὕτη τῆς στερισκούσης τοῦ διακρίνειν τὰ λευκὰ καὶ μέλανα.
For the things from the gods are to be revered because of their excellence; and those from men are dear because of kinship, but sometimes in a way they are also to be pitied because of their ignorance of good and evil; this blindness is no less than that which deprives one of the power to distinguish between white and black.