Fate

He told them not to take part in the war, but they gave him no heed, for fate lured them to destruction.

I dare not with my own eyes witness this fight between my son and Menelaos, for Zeus and the other immortals alone know which of the two is doomed to undergo the outcome of death.

Hereafter let him suffer whatever fate may have spun out for him when he was begotten and his mother bore him.

‘Chrysippus, sweating and laboring as to how he may explain both that all things come to pass by fate and that there is something in our power, gets himself entangled in this way.

‘Fate is the connection of things, holding fast one to another through all eternity, which is varied by its own order and law, yet in such a way that the variation itself possesses eternity.

Nor, indeed, does anyone seem to me to confirm more strongly—not only fate, but even necessity and the compelling force of all things—and to have abolished the voluntary motions of the mind, than this man, who confesses that he could not otherwise withstand fate, unless he had taken refuge in these fictitious swerves.

that Rāma's mind is not elsewhere — and yet that he is sunk in grief.

"Whether in the vastness of prosperity or in the most terrible adversity, fate drags a man about like one bound by a rope.

"Fate for living beings is surely irresistible, O best of monkeys — behold Saumitri, and me, and Rāma, all bewildered by calamities.

As for those who say that human affairs are governed by fate, do not seek arguments from us, but wound them with the proper barbs of rhetoric;

especially since you yourselves say that all things come to pass by fate, and that what has always been true from all eternity is fate:

And so the greatest matters have passed by in silence — about divination, about fate — on which questions you, indeed, touch briefly, but our school is wont to say much, though they are kept separate from this question which is now in hand.

Fortune has been called by many names among men:

An unbroken order of fates and an inevitable course drives them.

'But if you look back to the swift sun and the stars that follow in order, never will tomorrow's hour deceive you, nor will you be ensnared by the treacheries of a cloudless night.

The very Maker and Ruler of all things did indeed write the fates, but he also follows them;

The fates lead us on, and the first hour of our birth has appointed how much time remains to each.

We must not wage vain wars with necessity.

for mortals have no release from destined misfortune.

Yet she, too, was assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.

But that doom lives forever, forever flits around him.

The future will come of itself, though I shroud it in silence.

Whatever necessary event the god seeks, he himself will easily bring to light.

Everything is therefore in the power of destiny, who is the lord of gain and loss, of success and defeat, of pleasure and pain.

As the acquisition of every object pre-supposes at all events some exertion on the part of man, the application of proper means may be said to be the cause of gaining all our ends, and this application of proper means being thus necessary (even where a thing is destined to happen), it follows that a person who does nothing will enjoy no happiness.

for at this moment, as it seems, Fate was leading them on;