“Each man delights in the work that suits him best.”
XIV. 228 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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“The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.”
— Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations
III, 4
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book III
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