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The Renaissance4 quotes
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1532Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare · 1599Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven. — William Shakespeare · 1616There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will. — William Shakespeare · 1616Middle Ages3 quotes
The greatest gift which God in His bounty
Bestowed in creating,
And the most conformed to His own goodness
And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will,
With which the creatures that have intelligence,
They all and they alone, were and are endowed. — Dante Alighieri · 1321For man proposes, but God disposes. — Thomas a Kempis · 1427What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? — Boethius · 523Classical antiquity2 quotes
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. — Seneca · 58Whatever befalls you was prepared for you beforehand from eternity, and the thread of causes was spinning from everlasting both your existence and this which befalls you. — Marcus Aurelius · 180