A passage from Cleanthes
Cleanthes, Hymn to Zeus lines 7–10
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Thou knowest how to make things crooked straight and to order the disorderly. The unloved things are loved by thee, for thou hast fitted together all things, good and evil, into one, that there might be one everlasting reason of all things.
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