Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCEvery man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531