Miscellanies 5.1.11

We say, then, that faith must advance not idle and alone, but with inquiry. For I do not say that one should not inquire at all; for “Seek and you will find,” it says. “What is sought is caught, but what is neglected escapes,” according to Sophocles. And Menander the comic poet says similar things: “All that is sought,” say the wisest, “needs care.” But we must stretch the soul's discernment toward discovery and clear away what hinders, and cast out entirely rivalry, envy, and strife itself, which will perish most miserably from among men. For very finely Timon of Phlius writes: “Man-destroying Strife goes about, crying emptily, sister and fellow worker of murderous Quarrel; she rolls about wandering over everything, and then she has fixed her head in a mortal and casts it into hope.” Then, a little further on, he adds: “For who set these to fight in destructive strife? A crowd running with Echo; for, angry at those silent, he stirred up a chattering disease on men, and many perished,” about the lying argument, the horned, the hidden one, the crocodile, the heap, and the veiled one, and about ambiguities and sophisms.