Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764
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Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BC