and virtue, let them not offer to entangle themselves again with fruitless stories and vain learning, nor be addicted to corporeal delicacies, which dull the mind, and will divert and hinder them from the pursuit of those more noble and heavenly virtues." Upon the death of his beloved master, Socrates,[37] he instituted a sect called Cynics, out of whom came the great sect of Stoics; both which had these common principles, which they daily, with great and unwearied diligence, did maintain and instruct people in the knowledge of, viz., "No man is wise and happy but the good and virtuous man.[38] That not much learning nor study of many things was necessary. That a wise man is never drunk nor mad: that he never sinneth; that a wise man is void of passion: that he is sincere, religious, grave: that he only is divine. That such only are priests and prophets that have God in themselves. And that his law is imprinted in their minds, and the minds of all men:[39] that such an one only can pray who is innocent, meek, temperate, ingenuous, noble, a good magistrate, father, son, master, servant, and worthy of praise." On the contrary, "that wicked men can be none of these: that the same belongs to men and women." [31] Laert. vit. Socr. Ælian. [32] Laert. [33] Stob. [34] Stob. 177. [35] Diog. Laert. [36] Agel. lib. c. 5. [37] Laert. vit. Mem. [38] Laert. Plut. de Rep. Stoi. Cic. de aut. Deo, lib. ii. [39] Lactant. de Ira Dei, cap. 10. Their diet was slender, their food only what would satisfy nature.[40] Their garments exceeding mean. Their habitations solitary and homely. They affirmed, those who lived with fewest things and were contented, most nearly approached God, who wants nothing. They voluntarily despised riches, glory, and nobility, as foolish shows and vain fictions, that had no true and solid worth or happiness in them. They made all things to be good and evil, and flatly denied the idle stories of fortune and chance. [40] Plat. Pl. Ph. 16. Cic. Tul. Quest. 4. Diog. Laert. vit. Mem. Stob. Certainly these were they who, having no external law, became a law unto themselves, and did not abuse the knowledge they had of the invisible God, but to their capacities instructed men in the knowledge of that righteous, serious, solid, and heavenly principle which leads to true and everlasting happiness all those that embrace it.