Note 101 — BOOK VII. (continued 2)
Charles Duke Yonge translation
This is referring to the Stoic doctrine ridiculed by Horace:
Si dives qui sapiens est, Et sutor bonus, et solus formosus, et est Rex Cur optas quod habes?—Hor. Sat. i. 130.
Which may be translated:—
If every man is rich who’s wise, A cobbler too beyond all price; A handsome man, and eke a king; Why thus your vows at random fling?