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Why should a mortal man, the sport of chance, With no assured foreknowledge, be afraid? Best live a careless life from hand to mouth.
He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.
She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a mistake of destiny, born in a family of clerks.
How life is strange and changeful! How little a thing is needed for us to be lost or to be saved!
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state,
Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune—the ally of patient Time—that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven, From whence to man strange dooms be given, Past hope or fear. And the end men looked for cometh not, And a path is there where no man thought: So hath it fallen here.
There is no man under the sun so fortunate as I
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
