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Fate Quotes by Sophocles
- What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
- It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
- Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.
- If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
More Fate Quotes
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- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius
- Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. — Marcus Aurelius
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood! — Honore de Balzac
- The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,… — John Adams
- I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams
- I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to… — Alfred Adler
- Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have… — Ingrid Bergman