fate quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
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"Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded."
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"Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality."
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"Learning alters us, it does what all nourishment does that does not merely 'conserve'--as the physiologist knows. But at the bottom of our souls, quite 'down below,' there is certainly something unteachable, a granite of spiritual fate, of predetermined decision and answer to predetermined, chosen questions."
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"I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way."
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"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."
1094
"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."
1097
"No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny."
1098
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
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