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Meditations · Book IV · 23
Book IV · 23

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return. The poet says, Dear city of Cecrops; and wilt not thou say, Dear city of Zeus?

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.23. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.