Seneca · On obedience to the universal will

Letters 107.8

And Nature moderates this world-kingdom which you see, by her changing seasons: clear weather follows cloudy; after a calm, comes the storm; the winds blow by turns; day succeeds night; some of the heavenly bodies rise, and some set. Eternity consists of opposites.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 107.8, translated by Richard Mott Gummere