MARCUS AURELIUS. MEDITATIONS. Book vii. 11.
Tuesday
January 22
UP and down, from one age to another, go
the ordinary things of the world; being still
the same. And either of every thing in particular
before it come to pass, the mind of the Universe
doth consider with itself and deliberate: (and
if so, then submit for shame unto the determination
of such an excellent Understanding): or once
for all it did resolve upon all things in general;
and since that, whatsoever happens, happens by
a necessary consequence, and all things indivisibly
in a manner and inseparably hold one of another.
In sum, either there is a God, and then all
is well; or if all things go by chance and fortune,
yet must thou use thine own providence in those
things that concern thee properly; and then art
thou well.
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