When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.


Works, VI, 2:15.2


When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.