Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531
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He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC