[324] Diog. Laërt., l. x., §123; Cicér., de Nat. Deor., l. i., c. 30.

[325] Senec., Epist., 88; Sext. Empir., Adv. Math., l. vii., c. 2; Arist., Métaphys., l. iii., c. 4.

[326] Arist., Physic., l. vi., c. 9; voyez Bayle, Dict. crit., art. Zenon, rem. F.

[327] Cicér., de Natur. Deor., l. i., c. 15.

[328] Semel jussit, semper paret, Seneca has said. “The laws which God has prescribed for Himself,” he adds, “He will never revoke, because they have been dictated by His own perfections; and that the same plan, the same design having pleased Him once, pleases Him eternally” (Senec., nat.).

[329] Cicer., De Fato, cap. 17.

[330] Cicer., ibid., c. 9.

[331] Aul. Gell., l. vi., c. 2.

[332] Cicer., De Nat. Deor., l. i., c. 9; Plutar., De repug. Stoïc.; Diogenian. Apud.; Euseb., Præp. Evang., l. vi., c. 8.

[333] Herodot., Euterp., § 171; Julian Firm., De Error, prof., p. 45.