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Book I Chapter 1 · I.1.12b
Ancient Greek
p. 4012 Κλεάνθους (βʹ)
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 1
p. 4112 Cleanthes (2)
With it you direct the common reason, which runs through all, mingling with the lights both great and small— …37 so great are you, supreme king through all time. No deed is done upon the earth apart from you, divine one, nor in the divine vault of heaven, nor in the sea, except what bad men do in their own folly. Yet you know how to make what is uneven even, to bring order to disorder; what is hostile is friendly to you.38 For you have fitted all things into one, good with bad, so that there is one reason for all, existing forever. The wicked among mortals flee from it and let it go— unhappy men who always long to possess good things, yet neither see nor hear the common law of God. If they obeyed it with understanding, their life would be good.
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Stobaeus gathered Greek philosophy and poetry for his son Septimius. Volume I presents the dedication testimony, On Arithmetic, Book I through chapter 60, and the ancient contents of all four books. This complete bilingual edition includes an introduction and 2,117 explanatory notes.
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