To man no suffering unexpected comes;
We hold our fortune but from day to day.
ἀπροσδόκητον οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις πάθος·
ἐφημέρους γὰρ τὰς τύχας κεκτήμεθα.
ἐφημέρους γὰρ τὰς τύχας κεκτήμεθα.
Original text (Ancient Greek)
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My friend, time is the workman of the state; it rejoices to mould all things to the worse. | Frg. 84 K.-A. (tr. C. T. Ramage, 1873) // Ramage evidently confuses πολιός (grey, grizzled) with πόλεως (of the city); commenting out pending an accurate translation -->