| All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle |
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AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| Author:
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward RobertEra:
1803 |
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| What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! -- Jeremy Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, JeremyEra:
1613 |
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| If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance. -- William S. Gilbert |
| Author:
Gilbert, William S.Era:
1540 |
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| chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. -- Voltaire |
| Author:
VoltaireEra:
1694 |
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| Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all. -- Walter Raleigh |
| Author:
Raleigh, WalterEra:
1552 |
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