But the Universal Nature delights in change, and in obedience to her all things are now done well, and from eternity have been in like form, and will be such to time without end.
What, then, do you say—that all things have been and all things always will be bad, and that no power has ever been found in so many gods to rectify these things, but the world has been condemned to be bound in never ceasing evil?
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.35
IMAGE: A.P. van de Venne, An Allegory of Change (1655)
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