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And not a man appears to tell their fate.
All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.
Iliad (-750)
Toil is the lot of all, and bitter woe
The fate of many.
No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it,
neither brave man nor coward, I tell you—
it's born with us the day that we are born.
Iliad (-750)
Yet must I yield to death and stubborn fate,
Whene'er, at morn or noon or eve, the spear
Or arrow from the bow may reach my life.