What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? — Boethius

What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order?

In the original Latin

Quis enim cohercente in ordinem cuncta deo locus esse ullus temeritati reliquus potest?

The Consolation of Philosophy · 523
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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 5, poem 1.
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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 5, poem 1.

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