Discourse

 1 Thekla    |          them, there was no natal destiny before Europe or Phryxos,
 2 Thekla    |           ancestors lived without destiny. Let us endeavour now to
 3 Thekla    |           There was then no natal destiny.~If the sun, driving through
 4 Thekla    |           their own fault."50 ~If destiny51 leads one on to kill a
 5 Thekla    |          restrains the decrees of destiny, such as committing injustice,
 6 Thekla    |           law is in opposition to destiny; for those things which
 7 Thekla    |            for those things which destiny appointed the law prohibits,
 8 Thekla    |           which the law prohibits destiny compels men to do. Hence
 9 Thekla    |           Hence law is hostile to destiny. But if it be hostile, then
10 Thekla    |        not act in accordance with destiny; for by passing decrees
11 Thekla    |          decrees in opposition to destiny they destroy destiny. Either,
12 Thekla    |           to destiny they destroy destiny. Either, then, there is
13 Thekla    |            Either, then, there is destiny and there was no need of
14 Thekla    |        are not in accordance with destiny. But it is impossible that
15 Thekla    |          anything done apart from destiny; for they say it is not
16 Thekla    |         it was in accordance with destiny that Minos and Dracon, and
17 Thekla    |          place in accordance with destiny. But if these things were
18 Thekla    |           were in accordance with destiny, then the laws were not
19 Thekla    |       were not in accordance with destiny. For destiny itself would
20 Thekla    |      accordance with destiny. For destiny itself would not be destroyed
21 Thekla    |            therefore, there is no destiny.~If everything in the world
22 Thekla    |      falls out in accordance with destiny, and nothing without it,
23 Thekla    |         must needs be produced by destiny. But the law destroys destiny,
24 Thekla    |     destiny. But the law destroys destiny, teaching that virtue should
25 Thekla    | discipline. Therefore there is no destiny.~If destiny makes men to
26 Thekla    |           there is no destiny.~If destiny makes men to injure one
27 Thekla    |       Therefore there is no fixed destiny. Either education and habit
28 Thekla    |           evil in accordance with destiny, by the decrees of Providence,
29 Thekla    |         praiseworthy, their natal destiny being the cause of their
30 Thekla(51)|        star of man's nativity, h. destiny. ~