Meditations VI.1

The Universal Substance is docile¹ and ductile; and the Reason that controls it has no motive in itself to do wrong. For it hath no wrongness and doeth no wrong, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things come into being and fulfil their purpose as it directs.

• 1.Not so all Stoics; compare Seneca’s On Providence 5: non potest artifex mutare materiem.

  Seneca’s Latin, in translation: “the craftsman cannot change his material.”