Theater of Fate

They say that he would meet the foolish citizens with constant laughter. Why not? Since he himself knew of Providence, he knew how to set limits to our plans and to lead them through various winding paths in a continuous chain. Conversely, he saw his own people going blind, neglecting the care of the Divinity, running with an insane itch toward ambition, toward honors, toward pleasures.

Democritus was accustomed to shake his lungs
With perpetual laughter. Juvenal, Satire 10, verse 33.

Seneca Seneca, On the Tranquility of the Mind, chapter 14. approved of this practice of his so much that he did not hesitate to propose him to philosophers above all others for imitation; from whom

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enters our stage. He is certainly an eminent man, whom I would have placed before Democritus [as he is prior in time] if it were certain that he himself had left behind a work on Providence. Laërtius Laërtius, in his life, book 8. is the authority that he did acknowledge Fate and that God takes provident care of us; but there is great controversy among the learned regarding his writings and their compilers. There are those who claim he wrote nothing;