A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.
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If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
The works of nature must all be accounted good.
All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires us to suffer all good fortune that befalls everyone we know! What a bright prospect that is-downing another quart of pickle juice every time anyone around you has a happy moment!
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.
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