Quotes
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
Man proposes, but God disposes.
How each man weaves
his web will bring him to glory or to grief.
Many an ill has time repaired, and the shifting toil of changing years; many a man has Fortune, fitful visitant, mocked, then once more set up upon firm ground.
Goddess born, whither the Fates, in their ebb and flow, draw us, let us follow; whatever befall, all fortune is to be o'ercome by bearing.
Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
let's follow her where she calls and change course.
None of the trials you tell of, virgin,
is strange or unexpected: all of these
I have foreseen and journeyed in my thought.
Alas, it is wrong for man to rely on the gods for anything against their will!
Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won!
But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.
Through various hazards and events we move.
Fate will find a way.
Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
