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Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.

—Francis Bacon, 1620

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.

—Euripides, c. 425 BC

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

—Oscar Wilde, 1893

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972

The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

—Paul Valéry, 1931

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955