Everything which happens is familiar

Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer, for such is disease, and death, and calumny, and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 4.

Image: Roman, Republican or Early Imperial relief of a seated poet (Menander) with masks of New Comedy depicting a youth, false maiden, and old man, 1st century BCE – early 1st century CE, Princeton University Art Museum, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributors Dave and Margie Hill-Kleerup.