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Meditations · Book IV · 44
Book IV · 44

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, Meditations IV.44. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.