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Wilhelm von Humboldt on Fate

1767–1835 Germany

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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Attributed

A letter is a conversation between the present and the absent. Its fate is that it cannot last, but must pass away like the sound of the voice.

Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)

What lies in the nature of things and is dependent on fate, it would be silly and unmanly to lose one’s rest and inward equilibrium in thinking of it.

Attributed Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors (1880)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilhelm von Humboldt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.