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.
If then there happens to each thing both what is usual and natural, why should you complain?
For the Common Nature brings nothing which may not be borne by you.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.46
IMAGE: Jan Asselijn, Head of a Bellowing Ox (c. 1650)
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