Marcus Aurelius: “And consider that only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a…”

If then there is an invincible necessity, why dost thou resist?

He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.

Further, I owe it to the gods that I was not hurried into any offence against any of them, though I had a disposition which, if opportunity had offered, might have led me to do something of this kind; but, through their favor, there never…

All that is from the gods is full of providence.