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Date: 6 March, 2016

 

Post No. 2605

 

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Destiny has 4 feet, 8 hands and 16 eyes; how then shall the ill doer with only two of each hope to escape? –Chinese proverb

 

No flying from fate

 

Flee never so fast you cannot flee your fortune

 

Do what you ought, and come what can

 

What must be, must be (che sara, sara in French)

 

Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn

He that is born to be hanged, shall never be drowned

Every bullet has its billet.

A man’s destiny is always dark (meaning: nobody knows what fate has in store for him).

She is an old wife that wats (knows) her weird (fortune).

Tamil Views on Fate (From Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar)

371.He who is destined to prosper is industrious. Adversity betakes one who is indolent.

372.An adverse destiny blunts a man’s intelligence and makes him lose his wealth.

373.Although one may acquire profound knowledge by study, one’s innate tendencies will preponderate.

374.It is one thing to be wealthy, but to attain wisdom is quite another. This is the two fold nature of this world.

375.Thorough the influence of fate all good means of acquiring wealth may prove disastrous, and all foul means prove helpful

376.Whatever one is not destined to possess would be lost however hard one may safeguard it.

377.Even to those who have acquired immense wealth the enjoyment of it may not be possible except as ordained by the Disposer (God) of all things.

 

378.The poor who have nothing to enjoy would renounce the world if their destiny were to cease to torment them.

379.A man would accept and enjoy the good things of this world vouchsafed  to him y his destiny; why then should he feel disturbed when misfortune befalls him?

380.What is there more potent than fate? It forestalls every expedient one may resort to for averting it.

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Shakespeare on fate:

What Fates impose that men must needs abide,

It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

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There is a Divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will (Hamlet)

 

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Omar Khayyam on fate:

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on: nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash a word of it.

 

Homer on fate:

No man or woman born

Coward or brave, can shun his destiny

Marlowe  on fate:

It lies not in our power to love or hate

For Will in us is over ruled by Fate.

 

Koran on Fate:

That which God writes on thy forehead;

Thou wilt come to you (Chapter 7, Rukoo 16)

 

Bible on Fate

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord (Proverbs 16:13)

 

(There are at least 100 sayings in Sanskrit on Fate and Destiny; I will give them separately)

 

–subham–