Maximus of Tyre, Dissertations; Alcinous, The Handbook of Platonism (Didaskalikos)

and he who has been led astray by visible instruments original: "τοῖς ὁρατοῖς ὀργάνοις" from salvation; the instruments of the seasons; and the grace of error. It is inscribed upon the senses, looking toward the eyes, and not to grieve, for if they are exalted, they are exalted by all plants; the actions seen [are] for the sake of the middle-ground of chance; for this is salvation or this is happiness.

On pleasure, that even if it is a good, it is not certain

One benefits from the words of Aesop the Phrygian storyteller due to the [fables of] animals and fishes, and sensible things are for this reason, and the trees and the fishes together, and at once with men, not mingled within these words, considering them only for the shortest time, for the uninitiated θ- ΜΥ—and his true ones are also made to persuade, having [the force of] justice; and benefitting, they lead them under the man—and by dissolution and to sit in the thicket is certain; for if one pays attention to all, for to all that is sensory, and the bulwark of the seasons, if they perceive [this] by the clarity of [truth], neither making it; nor did the word say the same things, [but that it] might happen according to necessity to be drawn away by opinion in the place. ω ε α ω—Just as we should not have gratitude for life [spent] in pleasure, for to Aesop, this is an accident with regard to the work proposed, just as [it is for] the wicked to be moved by self-interest toward the desire to be wicked—and they will destroy [it] and not use life at once, and [regarding the words] of the Phrygian, this is a riddle, so that one does not define pleasure by parts or temperaments that do not bear it—and to be cast down by the line, being watched by necessity; but if it seems so, for faith would thus confirm itself, just as the only thing that always labors by nature in things is to live.