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Lectures and Fragments · Fragment 47
Musonius Rufus · Fragments

Fragment 47

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On the assassination of Galba someone said to Rufus, "Can you now hold that the world is ruled by divine Providence?" To which he replied, "Did I ever for a moment build my argument, that the world is ruled by a divine Providence, upon Galba?"1

Musonius Rufus, Lectures and Fragments, Fragment 47, translated by Cora E. Lutz (1947). The Stoic Library.