Seneca the Younger Quotes About Fate

• The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Guides

• It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Taken, Mean, Ambition

• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Order

• The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Drag, Willing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, CVII, 1922.

• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Fate, Destiny

• Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Fate, Names

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• I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Destiny

• As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Fate, Hands

• While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Fate, Years

• Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Wish

• Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Guilt, Guilty

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