Christian Fürchtegott Gellert,
Tales of instruction: in verse and prose
(November 2020)
“ Our proper Bliss depends on what we blame. DURING the violence of a storm, a traveller implored relief from Jupiter, and intreated him to assuage the tempest. But Jupiter lent a deaf ear to his intreaty. Struggling with the unabating fury of the whirlwind, tired, and far from shelter, he grew peevish and discontented. "Is it thus (he said) the gods, to whom our sacrifices are offered daily, heedless of our welfare, & amused with our sufferings, make an ostentatious parade of their omnipotence?" ”
