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I love intentionality as much as I love happenstance.

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“A kingdom’s fate is quite often decided by coincidence and happenstance and such small individual decisions.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/11/19/a-kingdoms-fate-is-quite-often-decided-by-coincidence-and-happenstance-and-such-small-individual-decisions/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 7

A quotation from Horace

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes
trembles when it goes.

[Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae,
mutatae quatient.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/28181/

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Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 "To Aristius Fuscus," l. 30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] - Horace | WIST Quotations

A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes trembles when it goes. [Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae, mutatae quatient.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Who so was to much ravished and to much joy did take In flow of wealth, him chaunge of flow yea to much shall yshake.…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 29

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on to say, “Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?” The student of nature will only laugh at you; just as a carpenter or a shoemaker would laugh, if you found fault with the shavings and scraps from their work which you saw in the shop.

[Σίκυος πικρός; ἄφες. βάτοι ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ; ἔκκλινον. ἀρκεῖ, μὴ προσεπείπῃς: τί δὲ καὶ ἐγένετο ταῦτα ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ; ἐπεὶ καταγελασθήσῃ ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπου φυσιολόγου, ὡς ἂν καὶ ὑπὸ τέκτονος καὶ σκυτέως γελασθείης καταγινώσκων ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἐργαστηρίῳ ξέσματα καὶ περιτμήματα τῶν κατασκευαζομένων ὁρᾷς.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 50 (8.50) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8007…

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 23

A quotation from Robert Heinlein

Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Podkayne of Mars, ch. 5, Worlds of IF magazine (1962-11)

More info about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/79…

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Podkayne of Mars, ch. 5, Worlds of IF magazine (1962-11) - Heinlein, Robert A. | WIST Quotations

Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs. This section of the first magazine installment of three was collected as ch. 5 of the novel (1963).

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 13, 2025

A quotation from Asimov

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Russian-American author, polymath, biochemist
Essay (1975-05), “The Planet That Wasn’t,” Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 48, No. 5

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/asimov-isaac/9053/

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