When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...

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.