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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

VI. Let not things future trouble thee. For if necessity so

require that they come to pass, thou shalt (whensoever that is)

be provided for them with the same reason, by which whatsoever

is now present, is made both tolerable and acceptable unto thee.

All things are linked and knitted together, and the knot is sacred,

neither is there anything in the world, that is not kind and natural

in regard of any other thing, or, that hath not some kind of reference

and natural correspondence with whatsoever is in the world besides.

For all things are ranked together, and by that decency of its due

place and order that each particular doth observe, they all concur

together to the making of one and the same ["Kosmos" ed] or world:

as if you said, a comely piece, or an orderly composition.

For all things throughout, there is but one and the same order;

and through all things, one and the same God, the same substance

and the same law. There is one common reason, and one common truth,

that belongs unto all reasonable creatures, for neither is there

save one perfection of all creatures that are of the same kind,

and partakers of the same reason.