Quote by Seneca the Younger

"It is to this law that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses; for it is a bad soldier who grumbles when following his commander."

— Seneca the Younger

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Seneca: Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Letter CVII: On Obedience to the Universal Will, sentence 9. In: Seneca. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. With an english tranaslation by Richard Mott Gummere, Ph.D. of Havervord College. In three volumes. A Loeb Classical Library edition; volume 1 published 1917; volume 2 published 1920; volume 3 published 1925. London: William Heinemann. New York: G.P. Putnams.

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Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.

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