Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

Much in our lives is chance.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

History is totally unpredictable.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

God throws dice, what can I say?

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.