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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

—James Russell Lowell, 1884

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.

—Cleanthes, c. 250 BC

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.

—Voltaire, 1764
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