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Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

VIII. How happy is man in this his power that hath been granted

unto him: that he needs not do anything but what God shall approve,

and that he may embrace contentedly, whatsoever God doth

send unto him? IX. Whatsoever doth happen in the ordinary

course and consequence of natural events, neither the Gods,

(for it is not possible, that they either wittingly or unwittingly

should do anything amiss) nor men, (for it is through ignorance,

and therefore against their wills that they do anything amiss)

must he accused. None then must be accused.