But the universal nature delights in change, and in obedience to her all things are now done well, and from eternity have been in like form, and will be such to time without end.
Marcus Aurelius describes the universal nature as finding joy in constant change, asserting that all things unfold perfectly according to its eternal design.
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One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within.
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
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