Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer; for such is disease, and death, and calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.
Marcus Aurelius observes that all events, both pleasant and unpleasant, are natural and predictable occurrences in life.
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