Meditations V.18

Nothing befalls anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear.⁴¹ Others experience the same things as thou, but either from ignorance that anything has befallen them, or to manifest their greatness of mind, they stand firm and get no hurt. A strange thing indeed that ignorance and vanity should prove stronger than wisdom!⁴²

• 41.viii. 46; x. 3; St. Paul, 1 Corinthians x. 13.

  1 Corinthians 10:13 has “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able” (King James).

• 42.Compare Seneca’s Epistles 36, near the end: turpissimum si eam securitatem nobis ratio non praestat, ad quam stultitia perducit.

  Seneca’s Latin, in translation: “it is most shameful if reason does not give us the calm that folly brings.”