Quotes about Fate

Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.

Call to mind the whole of Substance of which you have a very small portion, and the whole of time whereof a small hair's breadth has been determined for you, and of the chain of causation whereof you are how small a link.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.

Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due.

Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence.

In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.

Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In

Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow "or the day after." Unless you were a complete coward you wouldn't kick up a fuss about which day it was—what difference could it make? Now recognize that the difference between years from now and tomorrow is just as small.

We too will inevitably end up where so many eloquent orators have gone, so many distinguished philosophers (Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates), so many heroes of old, and so many generals and tyrants