Ethics, Bk. I, Prop. Xxxiii, "On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence" - Spinoza, Baruch

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher

Ethics, Bk. I, Prop. Xxxiii, “On the Improvement of the Understanding, the Ethics, and Correspondence”

trans. by R.H.M. Elwes (1955).