The Happiness of Gods
In fact, … if the wisdom of human life be to approximate to the serene equality of immortals, there can be no more direct flying off into the opposite direction than a system which aims at carrying to the utmost the inequalities and turbulences of mortals. … minds accustomed to place happiness in things so much the reverse of godlike, would find the happiness of gods exceedingly dull, and would long to get back to a world in which they could quarrel with each other.
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Context: Zee responds to the narrator's boasts about the rivalries and great men of the upper world.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter XV