DND 1.50b-51
Mischa Hooker / Cicero
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Et quaerere a nobis , Balbe , soletis , quae vita deorum sit quaeque ab is degatur aetas . Ea videlicet , qua nihil beatius , nihil omnibus bonis affluentius cogitari potest . Nihil enim agit , nullis occupationibus est inplicatus , nulla opera molitur , sua sapientia et virtute gaudet , habet exploratum fore se semper cum in maximis tum in aeternis voluptatibus .
Your sect , Balbus , frequently ask us how the Gods live , and how they pass their time ? Their life is the most happy , and the most abounding with all kinds of blessings , which can be conceived . They do nothing . They are embarrassed with no business ; nor do they perform any work . They rejoice in the possession of their own wisdom and virtue . They are satisfied that they shall ever enjoy the fulness of eternal pleasures .
Another enquiry , Balbus , which you Stoics often make , concerns the nature of the gods ' life , how they spend their days . Well , their life is such that nothing imaginable is more blessed , more abounding in all good things . The god is wholly inactive ; he has no round of tasks to perform , and no structures to set up . He takes pleasure in his own wisdom and virtue , utterly certain that he will be perennially surrounded by the greatest and most abiding pleasures .