"Fate sits on these dark battlements, and frowns; And as the portals open to receive me, Her voice, in sullen echoes, through the courts, Tells of a nameless deed."

"He putteth down one and setteth up another."

"As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come."

"A brave man struggling in the storms of fate."

"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate."

"But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?"

""Thou shalt see me at Philippi," was the remark of the spectre which appeared to Brutus in his tent at Abydos [B.C. 42]. Brutus answered boldly: "I will meet thee there." At Philippi the spectre reappeared, and Brutus, after being defeated, died upon his own sword."

"Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio."

"Big with the fate of Rome."

"The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."

"Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate."

"Fixed, fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute."

"And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound."

"All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate."

"Nullo fata loco possis excludere."

"He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all."

"For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee— For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane."

"Earth loves to gibber o'er her dross, Her golden souls, to waste; The cup she fills for her god-men Is a bitter cup to taste."

"It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is over-rul'd by fate."

"Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod præscripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat."

"Sed quo fata trahunt, virtus secura sequetur."

"In se magna ruunt: lætis hunc numina rebus Crescendi posuere modum."

"Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole."

"A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground."

"No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own."

"Some things are fixed, some things are in flux. Pompeii is fixed."

"Fate holds the strings, and Men like children move But as they're led: Success is from above."

"Just to save himself a few minutes' trouble, a man does not pay his workmen on the proper day, thinking nothing of the difficulties he brings upon them. So much suffering is caused just by carelessness — by forgetting to think how an action will affect others. But karma never forgets, and it takes no account of the fact that men forget."

"The karma of cruelty is the most terrible of all. The fate of the cruel must fall also upon all who go out intentionally to kill God's creatures, and call it "sport"."

"Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green, Married to green in all the sweetest flowers— Forget-me-not,—the blue bell,—and, that queen Of secrecy, the violet: what strange powers Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great, When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!"

"Even if there were exceedingly few things in a finite space in an infinite time, they would not have to repeat in the same configurations. Suppose there were three wheels of equal size, rotating on the same axis, one point marked on the circumference of each wheel, and these three points lined up in one straight line. If the second wheel rotated twice as fast as the first, and if the speed of the third wheel was 1/π of the speed of the first, the initial line-up would never recur."

"Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?"

"I do not know beneath what sky Nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great."

"East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of—and forth!"

"Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens Pinus, et celsæ graviore casu Decidunt terres feriuntque summos Fulgura montes."

"With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate."

"And not a man appears to tell their fate."

"Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below."

"Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe The fate of many."

"ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων"

"'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!""

"Why doth IT so and so, and ever so, This viewless, voiceless Turner of the Wheel?"

"Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip."

"Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise."