Marcus Aurelius: “Both man and God and the universe produce fruit; at the proper seasons each produces it.”

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…

Either there is a fatal necessity and invincible order, or a kind providence, or a confusion without a purpose and without a director (iv. 27).

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

All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.