Nothing can happen to any man which is not a human accident, nor to an ox which is not according to the nature of an ox, nor to a vine which is not according to the nature of a vine, nor to a stone which is not proper to a stone.
From his personal reflections, asserting that all events conform to the inherent nature of the entity experiencing them.
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But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
But if it is easy to set little value on all these things, turn to that which remains, which is to follow reason and God.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
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