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Aurelius, Meditations 9.38: Either all things by the providence of reason happen unto every particular, a...
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Either all things by the providence of reason happen unto every particular, as a part of one general body; and then it is against reason that a part should complain of anything that happens for the good of the whole; or if, according to Epicurus, atoms be the cause of all things and that life be nothing else but an accidentary confusion of things, and death nothing else, but a mere dispersion and so of all other things: what doest thou trouble thyself for?
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_09_xxxviii
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